2015 posts about web page bloat

July and July 2015 posts:

http://product.voxmedia.com/2015/5/6/8561867/declaring-performance-bankruptcy

https://mondaynote.com/news-sites-are-fatter-and-slower-than-ever-1dc7adebfc90#.q6gxa883u

http://digiday.com/publishers/washington-post-cut-page-load-time-85-percent/

The result: The Post has reduced its “perceived completeness time” — which it defines as the time it takes a page to appear complete to readers — to 1.7 seconds — an 85 percent performance increase compared to the previous iteration of the page. Unlike “load time,” which details how long it takes for every element on a page to load, perceived load time measures what a reader actually sees, making it a more useful metric, according to Franczyk.

Hah! No frigging way. Perceived completeness may be more useful for the publishers' IT department when they present their great achievements to other departments, but sorry, that's an invalid measurement for users, in my opinion.

Fully loaded includes every bit of crap that gets downloaded to users' computers (desktop, laptop, tablet, phone, shoe). All that crap can bog down older CPUs and create a clunky UX.

And while perceived completeness has been achieved, the UX may be disrupted by the additional download of the crapware (ads, useless javascript, images that are unnecessarily large).

July 2016 info: