The 49KB Webpage

In The 49MB Webpage, Shubham Bose describes how the New York Times website downloads 49MB of data across 422 (!) network requests. For one page! This is crazy to an old timer like me, but it’s the norm for most. We don’t have to live like this!John Gruber has done a much better job than I ever could in his write up about why this is so, and why it’s so bad for the survival of the web. Be sure to read it.I’ve been in this game since the web was hatched and while there’s a lot of nostalgia at p...