Web page bloat links - july 2016

http://www.npr.org/sections/thisisnpr/2015/10/27/451147757/npr-org-now-twice-as-fast
https://www.designernews.co/stories/58223-nprorg-now-twice-as-fast

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

http://tantek.com/2015/069/t1/js-dr-javascript-required-dead

http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2014/02/25/the-great-web-slowdown-infographic/

https://www.igvita.com/2016/01/12/the-average-page-is-a-myth/

http://mattgemmell.com/the-reader-hostile-web/

https://timkadlec.com/2015/05/choosing-performance/

http://daringfireball.net/2015/05/facebook_instant_articles

https://500ish.com/facebook-instant-karma-4a4bd4f3eca?gi=5cf41ca63561

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https://medium.com/@sophie_paxtonUX/stop-gratuitous-ui-animation-9ece9aa9eb97#.2mnswhkkm

https://stratechery.com/2015/why-web-pages-suck/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9891927

http://blog.venanti.us/web-app-2015/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9865338

https://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/weight-wait.html

http://developer.telerik.com/featured/whats-wrong-with-the-web/

http://product.voxmedia.com/2015/7/22/9013731/we-design-websites-not-mobile-sites

http://digiday.com/publishers/gq-com-cut-page-load-time-80-percent/

http://www.web-crunch.com/stop-it/

Gee, what a shock that bloated, slow-loading websites that get trimmed end up loading faster. It's not only annoying ads. Simply disable JavaScript, which reduces the desired function of the site, but such an action increases the speed of the site.

"Tests of top 50 news sites with three ad-blockers on iPhone show significant decrease in load times for many sites, modest increase in battery life"

http://mediagazer.com/151001/p7#a151001p7

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/technology/personaltech/ad-blockers-mobile-iphone-browsers.html?_r=0

What's sad and somewhat bizarre is that people are surprised at the page load speed of a single article page when ads and JavaScript are disabled.

Better late than never in discovering their sites' UX problem.

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