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)...
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday February 17 2019, @11:27PM
First they killed Aaron Swartz, then they blocked the blockers. For shame, MIT.
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