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Modern web bloat means some pages load 21MB of data - entry-level phones can't run some simple web pages, and some sites are harder to render than PUBG (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (19 children)

I ended up using a static site generator for my personal site because I fucking hate JS and frameworks and WebComponents. The front page is 646 KB and it loads in 4 seconds. I'd love for it to be 1 second or less, but the fonts are a factor.

And I shrunk the shit out of that background too with pngcrush so miss me with that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

My front page is 613KB with Wordpress. Moral of the story, you don't have to use a static website generator to have light things.

[–] fuzzzerd 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Check out https://250kb.club all performance sites focused on speed and small size.

[–] fuzzzerd 2 points 8 months ago

Or maybe the 512kb.club a more reasonable balance between 250 club and the 1mb club.

Also with a view: jankfree.org for a similar focus on performance.

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