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I don’t know what your network is like but the bloated web is still extremely fast for me

• hilbert42 3y ago
  Either 4G or 100Mb fiber. 'Clean' sites with little or no JS, HN for instance, can be blinding fast but others where JS and other web crap can exceed 5, even 7MB just to display a page of about 4k of text are often a disaster with JS enabled. Disable JS and most of the other crap including ads are also disabled/don't download. The other thing one notices with JS disabled is that 'hesitations' disappear, those delays and jitters just go away. (I'm so used to working without JS that I only have to work with a JS-enabled system for a second or two to know that JS is affecting its performance). Over the years I've noticed that those who don't ever think to turn JS off don't notice the hesitations etc. probably because they've become to accept such performance as the norm. If you look at the trends in modern web development, everything is aimed trying to speed these delays up rather than tackle the real problem of the huge and unecessary size of web pages. Most users do not want or need this extra junk. In my case, killing JS is my first line of defense.