[zzzcpan]

> A lot of the code that is loaded supports features that are used by a long tail of users

Bounce rate 53% according to alexa. So, majority of imgur users don't appreciate it, do hit cold load, etc. A user probably has to be dozens of interactions deep for initial loading cost to not be so high, but more likely there is no way to ever offset overhead of all that bloat for any user.

Personally, I use an extension to fix imgur brokenness and extract images from imgur pages without loading anything else.

[PretzelFisch]

Or the signal indicates most visitors are a result of an accidental link click.

[nyolfen]

care to share the extension? i found this, which seems similar: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/390194-imgur-redirect

[gameshot911]

Which extension? Sounds very useful.