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ravnotrajThe Website Obesity Crisis https://t.co/E88Nz91861 — Things Rav Likes (@thingsravlikes) December 22, 2016
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Stepan AnchugovШикарная статья о том, куда катится Веб.
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Tim MenschWeb site bloat articles are themselves extremely bloated. Irony.
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William Gunnhttps://t.co/Ym7h9jL5tZ "In fact, let's be even bolder... I'm not convinced that online publishing needs to be ad-supported at all."
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Frederico MaranhãoLet me start by saying that beautiful websites come in all sizes and page weights. I love big websites packed with images. I love high-resolution video. I love sprawling Javascript experiments or well-designed web apps. This talk isn't about any of …
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dnazarovLet me start by saying that beautiful websites come in all sizes and page weights. I love big websites packed with images. I love high-resolution video. I love sprawling Javascript experiments or well-designed web apps. This talk isn't about any of …
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Google has rolled out a competitor to Instant Articles, which it calls Accelerated Mobile Pages. AMP is a special subset of HTML designed to be fast on mobile devices.
Why not just serve regular HTML without stuffing it full of useless crap? The question is left unanswered.
The AMP project is ostentatiously open source, and all kinds of publishers have signed on. Out of an abundance of love for the mobile web, Google has volunteered to run the infrastructure, especially the user tracking parts of it.
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Jeremy Keith pointed out to me that the page describing AMP is technically infinite in size. If you open it in Chrome, it will keep downloading the same 3.4 megabyte carousel video forever.
If you open it in Safari, where the carousel is broken, the page still manages to fill 4 megabytes.
These comically huge homepages for projects designed to make the web faster are the equivalent of watching a fitness video where the presenter is just standing there, eating pizza and cookies.
The world's greatest tech companies can't even make these tiny text sites, describing their flagship projects to reduce page bloat, lightweight and fast on mobile.
I can't think of a more complete admission of defeat.
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The tech lead for Google's AMP project was nice enough to engage us on Twitter. He acknowledged the bloat, but explained that Google was "resource constrained" and had had to outsource this project.
This admission moved me deeply, because I had no idea Google was in a tight spot. So I spent a couple of hours of my own time making a static version of the AMP website.
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- Instead, here is the web pyramid as we observe it in the wild:
A base layer of HTML
A huge pile of crap
On top of it all, a whole mess of surveillance scripts.
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The way to keep giant companies from sterilizing the Internet is to make their sites irrelevant. If all the cool stuff happens elsewhere, people will follow. We did this with AOL and Prodigy, and we can do it again.
For this to happen, it's vital that the web stay participatory. That means not just making sites small enough so the whole world can visit them, but small enough so that people can learn to build their own, by example.
I don't care about bloat because it's inefficient. I care about it because it makes the web inaccessible.
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Thomas PleilLet me start by saying that beautiful websites come in all sizes and page weights. I love big websites packed with images. I love high-resolution video. I love sprawling Javascript experiments or well-designed web apps. This talk isn't about any of …
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Dan ConnollyTag Soup, Scripts And Obfuscation: How The Web Was Broken: https://t.co/uoJC0A4ioY #xml #html
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Kenneth Starzer"The Website Obesity Crisis
The Crisis
Fake Fixes
Fat Ads
Fat Assets
Chickenshit Minimalism
Interface Sprawl
Heavy Clouds
Stirring Conclusion"performance design webdesign optimization ui advertising ux obesity website talk
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Aditya BanerjeeSomething to revisit in a year or two
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Boris Schapira"I want to share with you my simple two-step secret to improving the performance of any website.
1. Make sure that the most important elements of the page download and render first.
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jay_wangLet me give you a concrete example. I recently heard from a competitor, let
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Andrew Nachison“The javascript alone on one @yorkshirepost article is longer than Remembrance of Things Past.” https://t.co/LE1RzH2efC
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This chart from the New York Times shows how much money you spend per page load on an American cell phone network, based on the bandwidth used. For example, it costs thirty cents to load a page from Boston.com on a typical data plan.
This is nothing more than a micropayment to the telecommunications company. And I'm sure it's more revenue than Boston.com sees from the ad impressions on the page.
We're in a stupid situation where ads make huge profits for data carriers and ad networks, at the expense of everyone else.
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Jonathan BeckerThe Taft Test: Does your page design improve when you replace every image with William Howard Taft? https://t.co/tXttyFl8C5
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Avdi GrimmThanks again to Twitter friends who helped me research my web obesity talk. I’ve put up the text version here https://t.co/VSALEYSUTc
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