<story><title>Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5</title><url>http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/62335-14-lousy-web-design-trends-that-are-making-a-comeback-due-to-html5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pkorzeniewski</author><text>What strikes me most is how websites are visually getting more and more minimalistic and at the same time they&apos;re loading and working slower. For example The New York Times [1] layout is as simple as possible (basically text only with some images), but it loads 20 JS files, 13 CSS files, makes ~200 requests and uses ~14 MB of memory on load.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anon1385</author><text>A year ago the average total transfer was something like 937kB and now it&apos;s 1311kB, at least according to these stats: &lt;a href=&quot;http://httparchive.org/trends.php#bytesTotal&amp;#38;reqTotal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://httparchive.org/trends.php#bytesTotal&amp;#38;reqTotal&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5</title><url>http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/62335-14-lousy-web-design-trends-that-are-making-a-comeback-due-to-html5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pkorzeniewski</author><text>What strikes me most is how websites are visually getting more and more minimalistic and at the same time they&apos;re loading and working slower. For example The New York Times [1] layout is as simple as possible (basically text only with some images), but it loads 20 JS files, 13 CSS files, makes ~200 requests and uses ~14 MB of memory on load.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>STRML</author><text>It&apos;s hard to believe that a site with that kind of traffic &amp;#38; resources hasn&apos;t even bothered to concatenate and minify its JS &amp;#38; CSS. Most of the JS files still have comments. Bizarre. They should know better.</text></comment>