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Your comment made me bring out DevTools, because I thought your number of requests you said ("~300") sounded a bit high. Boy was I wrong!!! - 500/565 reques

by MR4D 8y ago

Your comment made me bring out DevTools, because I thought your number of requests you said ("~300") sounded a bit high. Boy was I wrong!!! - 500/565 requests - 7.0 MB transferred - 9.86 second to load Holy crap!!!

Jach 8y ago
"Install our app!"
- jakecopp 8y ago
  Try dailytelegraph.com.au for a good shock! On mobile, but last I checked was around 700 HTTP requests on a desktop without adblock.
  - adventured 8y ago
    Checked it on Pingdom, from Melbourne, it failed after one minute of trying to load, with 585 requests and 3.4mb. I always find it difficult to imagine what kind of process leads to that result. The developers can't be happy about it, surely. It has to be a case where management and everyone else throws things they want into the project, a big concensus party, and you end up with a bloated monster at the end.
    - jpgrace 8y ago
      In my experience this often means that management is not measuring the right things or that the engineering team is super junior and not empowered to influence strategy.
  - RugnirViking 8y ago
    That's truly incredible. It took several long seconds on a usually very quick internet connection. At least they made the page reflow nicely as it loads but it's still ridiculous
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mehrdadn 8y ago
This is weird. In Chrome incognito, I get ~400 requests (without scrolling), and in Firefox private browsing, I get ~120 requests before scrolling, and ~190 after. What in the world? I disabled all the extensions in Firefox too.
- detaro 8y ago
  Doesn't Firefox private browsing has a tracking blocklist active by default?
  - deleted 8y ago
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  - mehrdadn 8y ago
    Wow, I didn't know that! I thought the tracking protection was just about the DNT header and I didn't expect that to make much difference here. However, even disabling that, I only get ~200 requests. There's still a lot missing... is it still blocking things under the hood?
    - RugnirViking 8y ago
      It may also be that different resources are loaded based on browser agent to track the user in different ways/display the page correctly on different browsers/polyfill javascript differences
- MR4D 8y ago
  I just re-ran it in Chrome ingongito mode to get the following: - 400 requests (adds about 1 per second after that) - 6.8 MB transferred - 6.1 seconds Then I ran it AGAIN, and got this: - 307 requests - 4.6 MB - 9.03 seconds You're right - it is WEIRD!

by MR4D 8y ago

Jach 8y ago

"Install our app!"

jakecopp 8y ago
Try dailytelegraph.com.au for a good shock! On mobile, but last I checked was around 700 HTTP requests on a desktop without adblock.
- adventured 8y ago
  Checked it on Pingdom, from Melbourne, it failed after one minute of trying to load, with 585 requests and 3.4mb. I always find it difficult to imagine what kind of process leads to that result. The developers can't be happy about it, surely. It has to be a case where management and everyone else throws things they want into the project, a big concensus party, and you end up with a bloated monster at the end.
  - jpgrace 8y ago
    In my experience this often means that management is not measuring the right things or that the engineering team is super junior and not empowered to influence strategy.
- RugnirViking 8y ago
  That's truly incredible. It took several long seconds on a usually very quick internet connection. At least they made the page reflow nicely as it loads but it's still ridiculous

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mehrdadn 8y ago

This is weird. In Chrome incognito, I get ~400 requests (without scrolling), and in Firefox private browsing, I get ~120 requests before scrolling, and ~190 after. What in the world? I disabled all the extensions in Firefox too.

detaro 8y ago
Doesn't Firefox private browsing has a tracking blocklist active by default?
- deleted 8y ago
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- mehrdadn 8y ago
  Wow, I didn't know that! I thought the tracking protection was just about the DNT header and I didn't expect that to make much difference here. However, even disabling that, I only get ~200 requests. There's still a lot missing... is it still blocking things under the hood?
  - RugnirViking 8y ago
    It may also be that different resources are loaded based on browser agent to track the user in different ways/display the page correctly on different browsers/polyfill javascript differences
MR4D 8y ago
I just re-ran it in Chrome ingongito mode to get the following: - 400 requests (adds about 1 per second after that) - 6.8 MB transferred - 6.1 seconds Then I ran it AGAIN, and got this: - 307 requests - 4.6 MB - 9.03 seconds You're right - it is WEIRD!