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#1 2021-11-23 19:32:03

Bloke
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From: Leeds, UK
Registered: 2006-01-29
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Think I know why social media is slow

Just browsed one element on a Facebook page using the inspector. Seriously. Is 17 nested divs the most efficient DOM tree they could come up with to house a single video tag? And that’s not to speak of another handful of divs further up the page before you get to this element.

Plus, just before the </body> tag there are sixty-six, yes 66, <script> tags. And one in the <head>.

Madness I tell you. Madness!


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#2 2021-11-23 21:39:34

Vienuolis
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From: Vilnius, Lithuania
Registered: 2009-06-14
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Re: Think I know why social media is slow

If money can solve your problem, it is not a problem! We will invest in more powerful hardware, hire more programmers — and everything will be OK.

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#3 2021-11-23 23:05:34

phiw13
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From: Japan
Registered: 2004-02-27
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Re: Think I know why social media is slow

It is the scripts (trackers, profilers, chaperones and other big daddy keeps you under his benevolent watch) that does it I suspect (not that I would know how FB is, I never go there).

I see quite a few of those react.js sites that are quite responsive (e.g Guardian, ElPais). 1Blocker might help as well, though.


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