Now if only I could get this from a decent news organization.
Text-only CNN
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#82My laptop can run computationally-intensive physics simulations and play streaming hi-def video with no problem, but if I click a link to a mainstream news article it just about keels over and dies. How did our grandparents ever manage to load the news on an underpowered machine called "paper"?
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#83They're still loading an analytics javascript file that is 230KB minified. That's literally two orders of magnitude larger than anything else that gets loaded from that URL.
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#84Okay, now the server side page is being rendered. The content weighs 6.7kb HTML + 877B CSS + frikkin 52.7kb analytics!!
Very fast, but still analytics on this lite site is bothering to see!
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#85Let down. I thought this was a convolutional neural network applied to text analytics.
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#87When Google first came out and we tried it there were two things we liked about it. The first: Good search results. Yeah everyone knows that right. But young people today might have forgotten the second reason we liked Google search back then: The Second: A clean page with a single logo and search field. It loaded quick. There were no banners everywhere, no bs. HackerNews has that feel. It is clean, information dense…
misinformation dense.
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#88There seem to be no ads. How do they plan to make money with this?
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#89Okay, now the server side page is being rendered. The content weighs 6.7kb HTML + 877B CSS + frikkin 52.7kb analytics!! Very fast, but still analytics on this lite site is bothering to see!
It's still CNN so they still have to consider revenue.
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#90How about no google analytics and making it truly text only? :)