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Websites make gazillion requests and run a bunch of javascript that is in their (not necessarily your) interest. Download size is not the only driver for slowne

• onion2k 7y ago
  The majority of those requests aren't blocking though, and nor is the JS code when it's parsed and run, so it won't have much of an impact on the parent's perception of how long it takes to load a page. There will be exceptions on sites that have been poorly made but those are unusual these days. If you sit with devtool's Network tab open you'll see a ton of stuff going on, but most of the bad stuff is after the page has rendered and become interactive. Web apps are a different story because they often load a couple of meg of JS before anything happens, but so long as things are being cached correctly that's only a problem occasionally.