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Ever wonder why web browser resource usage seems to have skyrocketed in the last 10 or so years?

This is the reason why:

 

Terribly coded websites.

In the twitter thread someone else also talks about all the metadata Twitter uses on their page. It is EXTREMELY inefficient.

  1. mr moose

    mr moose

    Is it inefficient because they are trying to dodge adblockers or is it inefficient because they have based their code on 15 iterations of older code based on earlier standards that are no longer viable?

  2. LAwLz

    LAwLz

    @mr moose in the specific example I posted it's the former. They are trying to dodge adblockers.

    However, in the "Facebook on iOS is over 100MB" case (a response to the tweet I linked" it's a mix of laziness, using older code, incompetence, poor management, and some other things.

  3. mr moose

    mr moose

    I clicked the link but it just went blank and nothing happened.   I can't work out if that was irony or just more evidence of what is being shown.

  4. LAwLz

    LAwLz

    Haha I see. It should show something for you.

  5. mr moose

    mr moose

    If I open it in a new tab it works.

  6. Ashley MLP Fangirl

    Ashley MLP Fangirl

    i had a 2009 MacBook with a 2ghz Core 2 Duo and 4GB of ram a while back (a few years ago) and it was perfectly usable. today it would be almost useless as a daily laptop...

     

    it's kinda sad really. perfectly good computers are being thrown away because developers code their sites bad... 

  7. Syntaxvgm

    Syntaxvgm

    Story about browser bloat. 
    Years ago when I started college (about 2011-2012), I was purely a desktop guy, and all laptops I had were for parts as I fixed them for a significant portion of my income. I grabbed an old single core gateway and used that for basic use in class, internet and notes until I bought myself a better laptop. Used it for a few months with no problems. It had 512MB of memory (which I eventually moved to 1GB) and an 8MB gpu! It run multiple tabs in firefox with no problem- these were the days when 4GB of ram was still plenty. I was able to run youtube in one tab and do other things with no skipping of music. Hell even minecraft played fine if you used optifine and played online instead of locally. 

    I eventually moved to a dell latitude with a dual core and 4GB of memory. Well, less than 2 years after that 2 cores was no longer enough, and a cpu was was both faster per thread by far and had 2 cores couldn't load a youtube video and scroll on antoher tab without skipping. 4GB of memory was not enough for using the computer with firefox when 512MB-1GB was ok just a couple of years before. I eventually bought a used alienware, then a couple of sandy bride dell precisions and slapped ssds in them after this that I still use for work. One has 8GB memory, and I feel the squeeze and might move it to 16GB like the other. 

     

    Browsers are so fucking needlessly bloated and these js tracking scripts on every website (I know, I add that as part of my job) just fucking kills what should be, and was, a perfect web browsing experience. 

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