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> How exactly [has the] modern web ended up in a situation where, first time browser is displaying a single page (with maybe 3 pictures and 2 paragraphs of text

> How exactly [has the] modern web ended up in a situation where, first time browser is displaying a single page (with maybe 3 pictures and 2 paragraphs of text), it has to download 300 resources from 12 different servers, including 2 megabytes of minified javascript? Ads.

edude03 4y ago
Also bundlers without treeshaking - I personally once delivered 70MB of compressed JS to clients in production
- the-anarchist 4y ago
  Your honesty is being appreciated.
  - w-ll 4y ago
    we've all used moment.js at some point
    - thejosh 4y ago
      I remember looking at a graph showing our frontend usage of various libraries. Moment was huge, because it depended on so much. At the time there's wasn't really a good alternative though.
- zxcvbn4038 4y ago
  You used jquery? :)