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This is such a minor nitpick, but I'm bothered by it because I see so much performance-shaming coming from some Googlers: The site loads large pictures for all
by dictum 10y ago
This is such a minor nitpick, but I'm bothered by it because I see so much performance-shaming coming from some Googlers:
The site loads large pictures for all viewport widths (ideally they'd load downscaled images for smaller viewports — it's wasteful to load a large image for small devices) and the image files are PNGs when they should be jpeg or webp (example: http://waymo.com/static/images/journey/streets.png http://waymo.com/static/images/journey/streets.png)
- Govannon 10y agoThat example isn't even compressed, which could drastically reduce its size.
- abailin 10y agoThe image shouldn't be a png in the first place.
- mercer 10y agoI've noticed this quite a bit with Google stuff. There's blogger, for example, which is one of the rare sites that doesn't show me anything until I whitelist the entire site in uMatrix.
- antisthenes 10y agoHow about It loads a fucking video ? That's pretty much all you need to know about performance.
- zellyn 10y agoHmmm. I'm more usually aware of helpful, insightful, useful articles on how to improve performance, and a constant stream of optimizations to web technology to the same end. Not that the site in question isn't bloated brochure-ware. Just that I wouldn't characterize Google that way.
- btian 10y agoWaymo is not Google.