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by drunkenmagician 571 days ago
> the same for 25 years. He has a 4 years old desktop mac and the webpage takes more than 20s to load

How long did it take to load 20 years ago, on a 20 year old PC/Mac ? - seems like a very big page?

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A few seconds. It's a news webpage, that has mostly text, links and images.

And of course now it loads a ton of useless widgets, probably much bigger images (sometimes they load a video to serve the same purpose, just because they can), and a whole lot more code. And that's with uBlock origins; if I disable it it's a lot worse.

Objectively, in 25 years they have been paying people to make it an order of magnitude worse. And it's not only them: the vast majority of websites have followed that trend.

There is supporting data that webpages have become bigger faster than the bandwidth even increased. This is like, very bad. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/the-need-for-speed/