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Any piece of software reflects the organization that built it. The data transferred is going to be almost entirely analytics and miscellaneous 3rd party script

Any piece of software reflects the organization that built it. The data transferred is going to be almost entirely analytics and miscellaneous 3rd party scripts, not the javascript actually used to make the page work (except for the "elephant" category which are lazy loading modules i.e. React). Much of that is driven by marketing teams who don't know or care about any of this. All devs did was paste Google Tag Manager and/or some other script injection service to the page. In some cases the devs don't even do that and the page is modified by some proxy out in the production infrastructure. Maybe the more meaningful concern to have is that marketing has more control over the result than the people actually doing the real work. In the case of the "elephant" pages, the bloat is with the organization itself. Not just a few idiots but idiots at scale.

jve 3y ago
I remember associating Google with lean and fast: Google the search (vs Yahooo) and Chrome (vs IE/FF (i'm talking about when Chrome was released))... chrome on itself had not much of an UI and it was a feature.
DanielHB 3y ago
> All devs did was paste Google Tag Manager and/or some other script injection service to the page. In some cases the devs don't even do that and the page is modified by some proxy out in the production infrastructure. google tag manager is the best tool for destroying your page performance, previous job had google tag manager in the hands of another non-tech department. I had to CONSTANTLY monitor the crap that was being injected in the production pages. I tried very hard to get it removed.