> Web browsers are faster than ever before That's not true at all, browser used to be much faster when HTML was simpler. > ...but web sites are bloatier than

> Web browsers are faster than ever before That's not true at all, browser used to be much faster when HTML was simpler. > ...but web sites are bloatier than ever before, eating up all the hardware and software capabilities. Actually, even a rather simple website can very slow to render, if it does a significant amount of dynamic updates. DOM performance is an absolute disaster, hence all these "virtual dom" implementations like React. CSS Layouting is incredibly expensive. That has nothing to do with website bloat in and of itself, it's the platform coming bloated out of the box.