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1. I can click a link to an article from a search result 2. I can read the article without having to wait 5 mins for every little javascript and popup to finis
by headcanon 10y ago
1. I can click a link to an article from a search result
2. I can read the article without having to wait 5 mins for every little javascript and popup to finish
3. Success
Optimizing a rich content-heavy website is hard, and time consuming. While we all can moan about all the tracking and ads that appear on these sites, they are a fact of life, and simply relying on the engineering chops of every website to up their game is not a winning strategy. It's infinitely simpler at the end of the day to drop in a few extra scripts and meta tags than to yak-shave-optimize the entire site.
- bartread 10y agoWe haven't quite reached the point where performance is seen as core functionality. What I will say is that if they've built the site sensibly it should be a case of optimising templates and views rather than yak-shaving-optimising every single page, which is a much more approachable endeavour. I'm probably going to get flak for this but tracking aside, and I can understand the arguments for that, from my experience a lot of poor performance is down to cargo cult development on the client side. On the flip-side, if you want an example of a content heavy media site that gets it right: http://www.bbc.com/news http://www.bbc.com/news.
- headcanon 10y agoCertainly, and a lot of it depends on the kind of engineering culture that the particular organization has. Shops like BBC and (especially) Bloomberg have really solid engineering org, which means they have a high degree of give-a-shit, and they have the flexibility to try more cutting-edge solutions that may require in-house maintenance. But as we all know, developing a good engineering culture is difficult and expensive and not everyone can do it.