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This compares how much Javascript is loaded from popular sites (cold loaded). Some highlights: - PornHub loads ~10x less JS than YouTube (1.4MB vs 12MB) - Gma
by PetitPrince 3y ago
This compares how much Javascript is loaded from popular sites (cold loaded). Some highlights:
- PornHub loads ~10x less JS than YouTube (1.4MB vs 12MB)
- Gmail have an incomprehensible large footprint (20MB). Fastmail is 10x ligthter (2MB). Figma is equivalent (20MB) while being a more complex app.
- Jira has 58MB (whoa)
- Spivak 3y agoHoly god YouTube is 12MB? How!?
- troupo 3y agoThey also load 2.5 MB of CSS on desktop :)
- mewpmewp2 3y agoYouTube feels really snappy to me, but Figma is consistently the worst experience I have ever felt for web apps. Jira is horrible and slow also though.
- latency-guy2 3y agoYouTube does not feel snappy to me anymore, its still one of the better experiences I have on the internet, but quite bad from years before. I just tested my connection to youtube right now, just a tiny bit over 1.2 seconds from not using it for a few days. A fresh, no cache, no cookies, the entire page loaded in 2.8 seconds. A hot reload on either side varied between 0.8s to 1.4 seconds. All done with at most ublock as an extension on desktop chrome with purported gigabit speeds from my ISP. That speed is just OK, but definitely not the 54ms response time I got to hit google's server to send me the HTML document that bears all the dynamic content on youtube Figma is very surprising to me, that bullshit somehow is PREFERRED by people, getting links from designers from that dogshit app screeches my browser to speeds I haven't seen in decades, and I don't think I'm exaggerating at all when I say that
- troupo 3y agoOn desktop they load 2.5MB of JS and 12 MB of Javascript to show a grid of images. And it still takes them over 5 seconds to show video length in the previews. Youtube hasn't felt snappy in ages
- jkoudys 3y agoPornhub needs to be small. Jira will download once then be loaded locally until it gets updated, just like an offline app. Pornhub will be run in incognito mode, where caching won't help.
- thrwwycbr 3y ago> Jira will download once Maybe you should take a look on the Network Tab, because Atlassian sure does have a crappy network stack.
- wruza 3y agoPornhub will be run in incognito mode It’s not '80s anymore, nobody cares about your porn. I have bookmarks on the bookmarks bar right next to electronics/grocery stores and HN. And if you’re not logged in, how would PH and others know your preferences?
- thiht 3y agoI don’t think you’re speaking for the majority here, no one has pornhub in their bookmarks bar
- nox101 3y agoWhen I said I didn't watch porn on company laptops, only my personal one, the 5 Apple employees at a party all said they watched porn on company laptops. I was in the minority.
- wruza 3y agoYeah that was incoherent remark on my side, and there are situations where I'd put them in a folder. But I still find going incognito to watch porn paranoid.
- npteljes 3y agoIt can also be considerate, like when using a shared device. Similar to how we don't vocalize every intrusive thought.
- pkphilip 3y agoNo idea why an email client should have 20 MB of JS.
- niutech 3y agoFigma uses WASM, so its total size is much bigger: https://www.figma.com/blog/figma-faster/ https://www.figma.com/blog/figma-faster/