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> Frontend developers are at fault for all this As a recent front end dev, I fought tooth and nail not to include all kinds of tracking drek into the company's
by starik36 6y ago
> Frontend developers are at fault for all this
As a recent front end dev, I fought tooth and nail not to include all kinds of tracking drek into the company's site. I lost every time because management overruled me.
At some point, it occurred to me that it's not my site and I shouldn't be taking personally that which doesn't belong to me.
- cblconfederate 6y agothis is not about tracking though. Even with an ad blocker, just about every website and blog now presents multiple spinning boxes when its loading. This is unnecessary , timewasting, environmentally unfriendly programming. And yes , 100% of the time it s devs that choose to build a site this way. It's come to the point where i feel bad for using plain old single-request-loading html, because it doesn't look 'spinny' enough, and users may think it's uncool.
- sozy777 6y agoIf business wants something quick and the cost of the website being slow doesn't matter... Why bother? On the other side, I've been building websites that gets +95 on mobile on Google page speed. If no image above the fold... It gets 100. In mobile, yes. And I still have analytics, YouTube and images... So I'd say depends by what business needs.
- namuol 6y ago> just about every website and blog now presents multiple spinning boxes when its loading The vast majority of "page" content is baked into prerendered HTML and CSS rendered. I'm not sure what spinners you're talking about unless you're referring to web apps with timelines/news feeds that dynamically load. Users love sites that load the important content and are interactive ASAP. Trust me, they appreciate your boring (fast) HTML.
- zwaps 6y agosee my above comment in this thread for a counter-example.