<story><title>Page Weight Matters (2012)</title><url>https://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LAC-Tech</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a bit pessimistic about this now, and largely given up beating the drum&lt;p&gt;Even in industries where customers are on extremely bad connections [0], I couldn&amp;#x27;t convince people to give up their bloated component libraries or cache things in indexedDB. Fact is not many web developers know how to write for these environments and not many businesses will incentivize for it, even when their customers complain.&lt;p&gt;Though the optimist in me will say this - if anyone actually does web dev where people do actually care about this, I&amp;#x27;d love to hear about it.&lt;p&gt;[0] My experience here &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lewiscampbell.tech&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;220205.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lewiscampbell.tech&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;220205.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Page Weight Matters (2012)</title><url>https://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ehnto</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s some interesting lessons in the article, one being that following metrics blindly will lead you down the wrong path. You have to know why the numbers are the way they are, not just what they are.&lt;p&gt;The second lesson I guess, is that inside an evolving product, this is a constant battle against entropy. The YouTube homepage is once again 15mb&amp;#x2F;90 requests, and that&amp;#x27;s with an ad-blocker.</text></comment>