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by papaman 2641 days ago
Nice article! As a web developer though, I did a quick "View Page Source" on my browser and I saw a complete mess... I'm sorry Quanta Magazine, this is not good for your business.

They really need to rethink their website. Very low Pagespeed Insights score, very slow website and HTML/CSS is just a mess.

I understand that Cloudflare or their Minimize/Cache system is doing a lot of this mess, but this will definitely effect your Google results. For example:

Inside the Source code, search for the phrase "Programmers are human, but mathematics is immortal". Do you see that it appears two times? JS is doing some crazy things and this affects their actual HTML script.

The blog seems to be build with React. I don't understand why they need to reinvent the wheel and build Blogs from scratch. Just use WordPress.

Please developers. You can do better.

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I suppose all those negative points are from people that don't understand web development or semantic web... It's really sad.