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Gratuitous use of background videos, large JS, large CSS, many fonts, and so on degraded the desktop web performance as well. It's not a mobile-only problem. Co
by cm3 10y ago
Gratuitous use of background videos, large JS, large CSS, many fonts, and so on degraded the desktop web performance as well. It's not a mobile-only problem. Compare scrolling on HN with scrolling on a random startup page and consider the provided content.
- mrweasel 10y agoAll kinds of site are guilty of bloating their sites, without any real reason. Take PayPal, their site is slow enough as is, so why do I need to see a short video of a barista just to login. That's kinda stupid and has nothing to do with PayPal. Aiming for a lighter site wouldn't just be good for mobile, it helps everyone. There's currently to much focus on presentation and to little on content. Even if the content is good, sometimes the presentation just get in the way.