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This is super off-topic, but it's really depressing to see the performance, usability, and intention of a website like Newsweek's. I turned off my ad blocker an
by bichiliad 9y ago
This is super off-topic, but it's really depressing to see the performance, usability, and intention of a website like Newsweek's. I turned off my ad blocker and cleared my cache and found:
- The site auto-plays a video with nothing but music in it, and continues to load further consecutive videos after the first is finished.
- The site downloads about 20mb of content by the end of the first video. I paused at the midpoint of the second, and my browser is still climbing (I killed the tab past 60 MB)
- There were over 1300 requests made by the end of the first video.
- The console showed 15 errors and 10 warnings, plus a handful of what looks like debug logs.
- The ads on the screen literally push all of the text of the article past the fold.
- Firefox slowed to a crawl across all tabs (this post became hard to type) and my computer kicked the fans on high (I have a pretty high-spec'd macbook pro with little else running).
I don't see how either advertisers or content producers benefit from a relationship like this — they're both trying to get me to interact with Newsweek.com, yet it's incredibly hard to do so.