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We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow

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Re: We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow

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Post by mbirth »

ffpip wrote: post #4

Use an adblocker. I save about 25 gigs and hours of my time every month. * https://www.ublockorigin.com * I block much more than ads.

If you can afford it, I'd suggest switching to AdNauseam (https://adnauseam.io). They're using the same uBlock Origin engine, but ads are downloaded and clicked on in the background. This way you still generate revenue for site owners.

But since this extension is banned from the Chrome Web Store, you'll have to install it manually there. On Firefox it's available from their add-on store.

Re: We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow

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Post by NicoJuicy »

ru552 wrote: post #32

https://catchjs.com/Blog/PerformanceInTheWild — actual link to the people that did the study. Itnext.io just ripped it off with a small credit at the bottom.

Perhaps dang can change the link to https://catchjs.com/Blog/PerformanceInTheWild

Re: We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow

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Post by mbirth »

hbn wrote: post #30
ffpip wrote: post #4

Use an adblocker. I save about 25 gigs and hours of my time every month. * https://www.ublockorigin.com * I block much more than ads.

uBlock is what's keeping me from switching to Safari (which is so much nicer to use on a Mac) It seems like most people who use Safari use full system-level ad blockers like Wipr. But I was also Googling around and found some complaints about Wipr, like it taking forever to be updated to block YouTube ads when they switch how they're displayed, or not being as good at getting around ad-block detection on certain site…

I've recently switched to macOS and Safari with Wipr. I don't see much difference to my Firefox setup with AdNauseam (uBlock Origin) before. More on the contrary - my selected lists were very aggressive and I had various sites where I had to disable uBlock to see them properly. With Safari and Wipr, everything seems to just work.

Re: We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow

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Post by highstep »

mbirth wrote: post #31
ffpip wrote: post #4

Use an adblocker. I save about 25 gigs and hours of my time every month. * https://www.ublockorigin.com * I block much more than ads.

If you can afford it, I'd suggest switching to AdNauseam ( https://adnauseam.io ). They're using the same uBlock Origin engine, but ads are downloaded and clicked on in the background. This way you still generate revenue for site owners. But since this extension is banned from the Chrome Web Store, you'll have to install it manually there. On Firefox it's available from their add-on store.

This seems very hostile to small businesses who pay for those ads.

Re: We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow

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Post by BrianOnHN »

jakelazaroff wrote: post #26
rasz wrote: post #19

I can guess without reading: 1 ads 2 client side rendering. Youtube nowadays is 400-1000 kilobytes of Json + ~!8! megabyte of javascript(1). Pre Polymer (YT client side rendering engine update) you would receive 50KB of pre rendered pure HTML that would display instantly. Nowadays scrolling comments results in seeing them appear one by one while browser struggles with constant DOM updates. 1) >7MB desktop_polymer_inl…

And you'd be wrong. SPA frameworks are almost entirely absent from this list. HN discourse would have you think single-page apps are pervasive, but they're only on a tiny fraction of websites: https://css-tricks.com/how-the-web-is-really-built/

Given that most public-facing websites want to benefit from SEO, it doesn't make sense to build a SPA for those websites.

I'd bet the majority of developers working on SPAs are doing so for internal dashboards/tools.

Re: We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow

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Post by mbirth »

highstep wrote: post #35
mbirth wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you can afford it, I'd suggest switching to AdNauseam ( https://adnauseam.io ). They're using the same uBlock Origin engine, but ads are downloaded and clicked on in the background. This way you still generate revenue for site owners. But since this extension is banned from the Chrome Web Store, you'll have to install it manually there. On Firefox it's available from their add-on store.

This seems very hostile to small businesses who pay for those ads.

Well, you can decide. Do you care more about the sites you visit frequently or the businesses that use Google Ads?

Re: We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow

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Post by JustFinishedBSG »

mbirth wrote: post #31
ffpip wrote: post #4

Use an adblocker. I save about 25 gigs and hours of my time every month. * https://www.ublockorigin.com * I block much more than ads.

If you can afford it, I'd suggest switching to AdNauseam ( https://adnauseam.io ). They're using the same uBlock Origin engine, but ads are downloaded and clicked on in the background. This way you still generate revenue for site owners. But since this extension is banned from the Chrome Web Store, you'll have to install it manually there. On Firefox it's available from their add-on store.

Nearly all Ad Networks do not use Click-Through as their payment metric anymore

Re: We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow

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Post by pjc50 »

I knew about googleanalytics; some years ago, back when browsers still had a status bar at the bottom, I noticed many sites waiting on it. So I redirected that domain to 127.0.0.1 and went on my way noticeably faster.

I'd not encountered Amazon Publisher Services but this article makes them look very bad.

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