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Is it hypocritical that this website is over 1 MB and has over 100 requests? http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160101_KN_FH3/ http://www.webpagetest.org/result/

Is it hypocritical that this website is over 1 MB and has over 100 requests? http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160101_KN_FH3/ http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160101_KN_FH3/

keithpeter 11y ago
bash-4.3$ links -dump http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm | wc 1429 7698 78566 Seems like a better bloat-to-word ratio than many of the example sites the OA mentions (including one of his own blog pages by the way). The little thumbnails of the slides from the original presentation do make up 990Kb of the roughly 1Mb but they are quite readable and do add value in my opinion.
mark_l_watson 11y ago
+1 thanks for the reference to websitetest.org! I was looking for something that. I tested my major sites and they all tested good (0.1 to 0.3 megabytes) except for one that was 3.5 MB because of a banner image that does not add much to the site. I will fix that!
- collinmanderson 11y ago
  Yeah, websitetest.org looks like a terrible website on first glance, given the ads and all, but it's actually an amazing website.
dchest 11y ago
No, it's not hypocritical: these 1 MB and 100 request are the content of this article, i.e. useful payload, as opposed to useless irrelevant junk which is on most websites these days.
- jarek 11y ago
  Arguably, many of the "slide" images aren't directly relevant to the content, they're just there because you're expected to have images in a tech conference talk.
Anthony-G 11y ago
In fairness, that page is as clean as it gets, given that it uses tables for layout and it loaded really quickly on my resource constrained laptop. I thought it was an excellent translation of content from a slideshow presentation to the medium of the web. (From the mistakes in the source markup, I presume the HTML was manually edited). I particularly enjoyed this self-reference: > Examples! > Here’s a self-righteous blogger who likes to criticize others for having bloated websites. And yet there's a gratuitous 3 megabyte image at the top of his most recent post. > http://idlewords.com/2014/08/green_arabia.htm http://idlewords.com/2014/08/green_arabia.htm

Is it hypocritical that this website is over 1 MB and has over 100 requests? http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160101_KN_FH3/ http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160101_KN_FH3/

keithpeter 11y ago

bash-4.3$ links -dump http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm | wc 1429 7698 78566 Seems like a better bloat-to-word ratio than many of the example sites the OA mentions (including one of his own blog pages by the way). The little thumbnails of the slides from the original presentation do make up 990Kb of the roughly 1Mb but they are quite readable and do add value in my opinion.

mark_l_watson 11y ago

+1 thanks for the reference to websitetest.org! I was looking for something that. I tested my major sites and they all tested good (0.1 to 0.3 megabytes) except for one that was 3.5 MB because of a banner image that does not add much to the site. I will fix that!

collinmanderson 11y ago
Yeah, websitetest.org looks like a terrible website on first glance, given the ads and all, but it's actually an amazing website.

dchest 11y ago

No, it's not hypocritical: these 1 MB and 100 request are the content of this article, i.e. useful payload, as opposed to useless irrelevant junk which is on most websites these days.

jarek 11y ago
Arguably, many of the "slide" images aren't directly relevant to the content, they're just there because you're expected to have images in a tech conference talk.

Anthony-G 11y ago

In fairness, that page is as clean as it gets, given that it uses tables for layout and it loaded really quickly on my resource constrained laptop. I thought it was an excellent translation of content from a slideshow presentation to the medium of the web. (From the mistakes in the source markup, I presume the HTML was manually edited). I particularly enjoyed this self-reference: > Examples! > Here’s a self-righteous blogger who likes to criticize others for having bloated websites. And yet there's a gratuitous 3 megabyte image at the top of his most recent post. > http://idlewords.com/2014/08/green_arabia.htm http://idlewords.com/2014/08/green_arabia.htm