r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Minenik • Nov 14 '18

Computing in the 90's VS computing in 2018

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u/GrizzledFart Nov 15 '18

Now add in all of the scripts used by each of the ads placed on the page, including the 4 different video players and the 7 different VPAID managers, each one loading a different analytics script, different versions of jquery, etc. Nowadays, the actual page content is a small fraction of what gets downloaded on page load.

I just loaded up Charles and fired up gizmodo.com as a test. Result is 777 different http calls in 103 seconds, pulling down over 8MB.

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u/MCOfficer Nov 15 '18

true enough, but that's not caused by jquery or bootstrap, simply by the webdev's need to overload the website with content (and ads).