The "Bloated" Web

Bloated Web: One Article Shouldn’t Need 55 Pages of Code to Show Up on Your Phone

Frédéric Filloux | August 16, 2016

When reading this 800-word Guardian story—about half a page of text long—our web browser loads the equivalent of 55 pages of HTML code—almost half a million characters. To be precise: an article of 757 words (4667 characters and spaces), requires 485,527 characters of code:

Source; http://qz.com/758302/bloated-web-one-article-shouldnt-need-55-pages-of-code-to-show-up-on-your-phone/

Put another way, “useful” text (the human-readable article) weighs less than one percent (0.96%) of the underlying browser code. The rest consists of links (more than 600) and scripts of all types (120 references), related to trackers, advertising objects, analytics, etc.

[Click on link for video] Source: http://www.webdirections.org/blog/the-website-obesity-crisis/

<more at http://qz.com/758302/bloated-web-one-article-shouldnt-need-55-pages-of-code-to-show-up-on-your-phone/; related articles and length: http://www.yottaa.com/company/blog/application-optimization/a-brief-history-of-web-page-size/ (Web Page Sizes: A (Not So) Brief History of Page Size through 2015. August 17, 2015) and http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm (+Video) (The Website Obesity Crisis. October 29, 2015)>