New York Times and the 49MB Web Page

Around 1800 files make up the total of this website and is a total of 41.5 megabytes on disk. My homepage is a request that is a mere 0.559 megabytes and incredibly around 0.01 megabytes on second load, due to the caching of assets. This is according to Chromium dev tools.

Given my website is deployed as just html, css and a very very small amount of JavaScript (for theming, pwa offline usage) it costs nothing and can handle load.

I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. And then you wonder why every sane tech person has an adblocker installed on systems of all their loved ones.

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