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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: 3, Informative) by RS3 on Saturday February 16 2019, @06:58PM (1 child)
Thanks. I quite agree about the newer "Opera". I specified "Old Opera", which is a fairly commonly used designation for up to version 12.18, based on the "Presto" rendering engine. 12.18 is great for most websites. Some with horrific code errors (as per validator.w3.org) can freeze it up, or just not render things the way they were intended to look, but overall it's still my main browser.
In fact, I'm writing this using Vivaldi and have been for 2+ years (IIRC). It's much much better than Chrome (ugh). We have the per-site javascript, etc. settings, but it's overall responsiveness is slowwww (on the same hardware as Opera 12.18 which is snappy).
Blockers are our friends.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @08:33PM
Just so you know, Chromium's core has per-site control over all of that too, it is just hidden by default in the settings. Vivaldi and Chrome use the same control interface to disable that stuff.