This is kind of sad. Going back more than a decade ago, google.com used to be brutally optimized. Anything unnecessary was stripped to reduce load times and de

This is kind of sad. Going back more than a decade ago, google.com used to be brutally optimized. Anything unnecessary was stripped to reduce load times and decrease network traffic. For example, attribute values were never quoted if they didn't have to be and closing tags like </html> were omitted. It was kind of fascinating to read how many terabytes of network traffic omitting </html> saved. But then came the ill-fated boondoggle that was Google+ and with Google+ came the OneBar. This was the black bar across the top of the screen with key properties but, more importantly, the G+ login. The cost of this was really high. We don't have the black bar anymore but a subset of links remain as does the login box, even if it isn't for G+ anymore. The Google home page just isn't the lean page it once was. That doesn't make me mad, unlike say AMP, which makes me incredibly angry. But still I can't help but take it as a sign of lost values.