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This is a beautiful page, but my god, is it heavy. I'm counting 171 separate requests totaling 31 Mb - excluding the videos. I've not even loaded all videos, an

by akie 11y ago

This is a beautiful page, but my god, is it heavy. I'm counting 171 separate requests totaling 31 Mb - excluding the videos. I've not even loaded all videos, and my total is at over 400 Mb now.... Is this acceptable now?

pcurve 11y ago
I was really blown away by how much care went into making it perfect on mobile view for both orientations. Each photo is positioned differently to ensure best composition. But it does feel a but clunky and that size is rather shocking.
- akie 11y ago
  Yeah, they've done an impressive job on mobile as well. The numbers I posted are on a desktop machine. I've checked, and it seems to weigh in at only 1.1 Mb on mobile. Pretty neat.
ohitsdom 11y ago
I hate the cruft on simple news articles, but I am completely fine in this case for a special feature like this. The images/videos were beautiful and all served a purpose, and it was mostly lazy-loaded. Yes some initial load time, but a very good user experience.
amelius 11y ago
> This is a beautiful page, but my god, is it heavy I'm already looking forward to the Oculus Rift version :)
- Sideshow_Boob 11y ago
  stop trying to make Oculus Rift a thing
  - paublyrne 11y ago
    Upvoted for the Mean Girls reference. Oculus Rift is going to be a real thing, though, whether we like it or not.
    - amelius 11y ago
      Just wait until you can sit behind your computer and develop stuff on a beautiful beach, and use a big screen, all embedded into the VR world. It would sure beat the crap out of my current desktop backdrop, which is mostly covered by windows anyway :)
      - dexterdog 11y ago
        Just wait until you walk into the family room in 5 years and each person is on his own headset doing his own thing. I love the immersion, but you need to retain a sense of shared experience that we have already lost with time shifting/binge watching.
    - jodrellblank 11y ago
      Oculus Rift's founder said that Virtual Desktop use of the Rift is "not a focus for us right now" in a Reddit AMA yesterday - https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3zt7ul/i_am_palmer_luckey_founder_of_oculus_and_designer/cyozccm https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3zt7ul/i_am_palmer_lu... Followed by a comment saying web browsing in a Virtual Desktop style environment on the Rift isn't very good, and can't be due to screen resolution limitations.
      - amelius 11y ago
        That is unfortunate. But good to know, thanks.
MC7447a 11y ago
Text only version: http://pastebin.com/raw/A8T4MRGD http://pastebin.com/raw/A8T4MRGD (without text blurb) http://pastebin.com/raw/t0CG2tzg http://pastebin.com/raw/t0CG2tzg (with text blurb) http://pastebin.com/raw/Ud4Vc2hp http://pastebin.com/raw/Ud4Vc2hp (python code used to extract this) bugs (won't fix): - text blurb is not printed for items without g-secondary-name - character encoding is wrong
CaptSpify 11y ago
noscript+adblock wins again! 67K for me. To be fair, I've had to spend some time training my adblock to handle nytimes
- knodi123 11y ago
  care to share your black/white lists?
zokier 11y ago
While 31 megs is quite a lot indeed, there is also good amount of content on the page too. I find it far more offensive when pages use couple megs for some short news article with maybe two small pictures.

by akie 11y ago

pcurve 11y ago

I was really blown away by how much care went into making it perfect on mobile view for both orientations. Each photo is positioned differently to ensure best composition. But it does feel a but clunky and that size is rather shocking.

akie 11y ago
Yeah, they've done an impressive job on mobile as well. The numbers I posted are on a desktop machine. I've checked, and it seems to weigh in at only 1.1 Mb on mobile. Pretty neat.

ohitsdom 11y ago

I hate the cruft on simple news articles, but I am completely fine in this case for a special feature like this. The images/videos were beautiful and all served a purpose, and it was mostly lazy-loaded. Yes some initial load time, but a very good user experience.

amelius 11y ago

> This is a beautiful page, but my god, is it heavy I'm already looking forward to the Oculus Rift version :)

Sideshow_Boob 11y ago
stop trying to make Oculus Rift a thing
- paublyrne 11y ago
  Upvoted for the Mean Girls reference. Oculus Rift is going to be a real thing, though, whether we like it or not.
  - amelius 11y ago
    Just wait until you can sit behind your computer and develop stuff on a beautiful beach, and use a big screen, all embedded into the VR world. It would sure beat the crap out of my current desktop backdrop, which is mostly covered by windows anyway :)
    - dexterdog 11y ago
      Just wait until you walk into the family room in 5 years and each person is on his own headset doing his own thing. I love the immersion, but you need to retain a sense of shared experience that we have already lost with time shifting/binge watching.
  - jodrellblank 11y ago
    Oculus Rift's founder said that Virtual Desktop use of the Rift is "not a focus for us right now" in a Reddit AMA yesterday - https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3zt7ul/i_am_palmer_luckey_founder_of_oculus_and_designer/cyozccm https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3zt7ul/i_am_palmer_lu... Followed by a comment saying web browsing in a Virtual Desktop style environment on the Rift isn't very good, and can't be due to screen resolution limitations.
    - amelius 11y ago
      That is unfortunate. But good to know, thanks.

MC7447a 11y ago

Text only version: http://pastebin.com/raw/A8T4MRGD http://pastebin.com/raw/A8T4MRGD (without text blurb) http://pastebin.com/raw/t0CG2tzg http://pastebin.com/raw/t0CG2tzg (with text blurb) http://pastebin.com/raw/Ud4Vc2hp http://pastebin.com/raw/Ud4Vc2hp (python code used to extract this) bugs (won't fix): - text blurb is not printed for items without g-secondary-name - character encoding is wrong

CaptSpify 11y ago

noscript+adblock wins again! 67K for me. To be fair, I've had to spend some time training my adblock to handle nytimes

knodi123 11y ago
care to share your black/white lists?

zokier 11y ago

While 31 megs is quite a lot indeed, there is also good amount of content on the page too. I find it far more offensive when pages use couple megs for some short news article with maybe two small pictures.