Dan Luu 2/8/2017

How web bloat impacts users with slow connections

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Using personal anecdotes from rural travel and a flaky mobile connection, the author demonstrates how excessive CSS, JavaScript, and dependencies cause modern websites to fail on slow connections. They argue that while performance optimization is often deprioritized, the web's growing bloat actively excludes users without high-speed internet, unlike the more functional, lightweight web of the past.

How web bloat impacts users with slow connections

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