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Comment by Dwedit

3 days ago

I looked at a CNN "lite" article, and it includes 560KB of stuff (lots and lots of CSS declarations) in addition to the actual 11KB of article content.

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zamadatix  3 days ago

While still wasteful, CSS is one of those things you can do astronomically wrong before it starts being noticeable. Case in point here: inlining 560 kb of CSS with the page and just sending it with the entire HTML file each time is only ~61 kb of actual network transfer to load the article (due to brotli encoding).

sva_  3 days ago

For me in Firefox it only loads the article's HTML (50-70kb) and the favicon (7kb).

Are you sure it isn't some addon you have?

  • zamadatix  3 days ago

    The articles HTML is ~60 kb compressed and ~10x that uncompressed, which accounts for both apparent sizes.

  • pandemic_region  3 days ago

    It could be the cookie banner appearing.

    • IanCal  3 days ago

      It is, the content loads first, then the js for the cookie banner, then the favicon. If the js fails to load (I blocked the request as a test) the page loads just fine, it isn't blocked by that.

iberator  3 days ago

The point is that it would still work if you block JS, CSS and graphics.

Check it out in lynx for example