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>(2) Information transfer requires fuel and burning fuel is destroying our habitat. It might seem trivial to shave kB off download sizes, but the cumulative eff
by FrenchDevRemote 4y ago
>(2) Information transfer requires fuel and burning fuel is destroying our habitat. It might seem trivial to shave kB off download sizes, but the cumulative effect of large sites doing this should be acknowledged and encouraged.
No.
This is cached if the devs aren't incompetent, the lion's share of information transfer is video streaming, not large JS files.
- austinjp 4y agoData still has to get to the cache, get stored, and sent to clients. More data = more energy, cache or no. Your point about video streaming being a far larger amount of data is of course fully valid. But I was replying to a thread about JavaScript.