[userbinator]

I bet the average medium blog loads more than that.

That others are just as wasteful is immaterial; the fact that it's multiplied by every single user makes it downright hostile to everyone except those who are profiting from bandwidth use.

Every single "cross-platform solution" I've seen is basically a sub-optimal experience on every platform. Personally, I'd rather have fewer native applications than the wave of quantity-over-quality not-quite-right-anywhere that stuff like this tends to encourage.