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chromas
on Saturday February 16 2019, @04:44AM
from the free-content-is-paid-for-by-wasting-your-life-on-loading-times dept.
from the free-content-is-paid-for-by-wasting-your-life-on-loading-times dept.
BBC:
Ads are responsible for making webpages slow to a crawl, suggests analysis of the most popular one million websites.
The research by developer Patrick Hulce looked at which chunks of code take longest to load.
About 60% of the total loading time of a page was caused by scripts that place adverts or analyse what users do, he found.
Not news for most Soylentils, but in case anyone needs to cite the performance hit (to convince PHBs)...
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @02:50PM
that's not entirely true. most people that fall under your categories care more about what they are doing is actually working. sites load, pages open, computer doesnt crash and application doesnt fail.
shiny has little to do with it on the desktop -- consider how people got the free upgrade for windows 10 on old hardware, and pcs remain a hard sell to people.
its easy to just lump them into the Other group and wall them off and say bad things about them, though, even if it doesnt do anything to solve the real problem.