"While more of the #web is becoming accessible to people with low-end connections, more of the web is becoming inaccessible to people with low-end devices even if they have high-end connections."
@danluu on web bloat: danluu.com/slow-device/
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in reply to Molly White • • •in my case i tend to avoid the heavy website because "strangely" they also the one with most of "tracker / ads" that break them with adblock.
I don't mind to pay high quality website ... if their website are also high quality and not one more wordpress over-bloated with 3 hundreds module and an heavy theme with 30 animation on each clic.
Jonathan Grynspan
in reply to Molly White • • •Some sort of kismet here. mastodon.social/@MrLovenstein/…
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stony kark
in reply to Molly White • • •Matt Nordhoff
in reply to Molly White • • •Personal opinion: I think RAM usage and screen size are also critical metrics.
Outside of egregious cases (my nemesis YouTube chat, advanced web applications), you can wait for a page to load and get on with your life (or what time remains of it).
But if Firefox uses all your RAM rendering a downscaled 4000 px wide high definition logo and crashes, or if your screen is 75% header bars, 25% footer bars, and 0% real content, that's completely disruptive.
Jabberwock
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in reply to Molly White • • •I feel this. I daily a Raspberry Pi, which looks like it has similar specifications to the Tecno Spark device discussed.
Anyway, let's cause even more e-waste by throwing away our Samsung phones and buying iPhones, to keep Jeff happy.
edit - spent decades administrating Invision Forum boards (not mentioned here, similar to vB), just loaded one - 2.6mb. Glad I didn't more strongly encourage a move to Discourse.
Steve Thompson
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in reply to Molly White • • •That using old notebook metrics, which is my case, sadly.
SpaceLifeForm
in reply to Molly White • • •Another thing to look at is the Javascript bloat.
Not only does that waste more cpu, but it also wastes bandwidth, which becomes a tax on users that have to deal with data caps.
[This post created on a low ram slow device using recycled bits]
Tariq
in reply to Molly White • • •Logick\n λ 🦅
in reply to Molly White • • •This was where my rant came from; I don’t understand why even though computer technology has been improving massively over time, web browsing experience has been getting worse.
mastodon.social/@logickinlambd…
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in reply to Molly White • • •Browsing most random sites on my iPhone browser turns it into a hand warmer in minutes and noticably reduces my battery.
Where’s the search engine that will prioritize performant search results over bloated ones? I’d even install a browser extension to help crowdsource such metrics.
Chris Raymond
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in reply to Molly White • • •[Boost] use cmake build by Neumann-A · Pull Request #32309 · microsoft/vcpkg
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