• lobut@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      Web “Apps” are also quite bad. Lots of and lots of stuff we’re downloading and it feels clunky.

      Sometimes that’s bad coding, poor optimization, third party libraries, or sometimes just including trackers/ads on the page.

      • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I vaguely recall a recent-ish article that an average web page is 30mb. That’s right, thirty megabytes.

        It’s amazing how much faster web browsing becomes when I run PiHole and block most of it.

        Suddenly the TV is pretty snappy, and all browsers feel so much smoother.

        • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          And I’m sitting here uneasy thinking how the hell I’m going to compress my map data any further so that my entire web app is no bigger than 2 mb. 😥

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      With that in mind, I LOVE how lean and fast some FOSS apps/projects are. One of my motivations to go searching for FOSS alternatives is when something seems slow for no reason.

      It’s not always the case, but it’s often the case

  • Realitätsverlust@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Simple reason - dependencies.

    Modern devs dump any dependency and sub-dependency under the sun into their project and don’t bother about optimizing it. That’s how you end up with absurdly large applications. Especially electron is a problem in this regard.

    You can still write optimized and small software. However, for most businesses, it’s just not worth their time. Rather using an additional couple hundred megabytes of dependencies on the client system.

    • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      In terms of programming, absolutely some bloat there.

      But I would wager a majority (or plurality) would actually be high(er) res media assets, embedded animations and video etc.