You think web page size bloat is bad on some things? oh boy. Good afternoon to everyone, except bumn.go.id (an Indonesian government website) for having a (at least) 3GB web page because of embedded MP4's with uncompressed audio and video seeming straight from the camera... This must cost so much for them, like a single page load could cost at least $0.15 in cloud egress fees alone
one honk maybe more
yonle@fedinet.waltuh..
replied 20 Feb 2026 15:38 +0000
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yonle@fedinet.waltuh..
replied 20 Feb 2026 15:39 +0000
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gsuberland@chaos.soc..
replied 20 Feb 2026 15:54 +0000
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azonenberg@ioc.excha..
replied 20 Feb 2026 16:31 +0000
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@gsuberland @benjojo That makes the photo on https://www.cs.rpi.edu/~chrisc/ look entirely reasonable in size by comparison (it's just a <img> tag resized, check out how big the raw photo is) Me and my classmates used to joke how you could tell he was the HPC prof and probably on like a 10G pipe because he never noticed the load time
atax1a@infosec.excha..
replied 20 Feb 2026 15:55 +0000
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@benjojo our high school web design class taught people to put 4MB MP3 files as background music on their page, and to make every link a Flash button.
ska@social.treehouse..
replied 20 Feb 2026 17:33 +0000
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solonovamax@tech.lgb..
replied 20 Feb 2026 17:02 +0000
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@benjojo and here I am trying to get my page under 512kb (which, mind you, is only my target because of additional fonts. if I wasn't counting fonts, it would be 256kb. and if I replaced my profile picture with a vector image, which I also plan to do, it will be ~128kb)
lanodan@queer.hackti..
replied 20 Feb 2026 17:32 +0000
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@benjojo Wow, that more or less beats Wired having autoplaying videos in their articles (although I'm not sure if there was an end to the playlist they used).
https://queer.hacktivis.me/notice/AG8clhwQSC9kK0wwpE
divVerent@misskey.de
replied 20 Feb 2026 18:01 +0000
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@benjojo@benjojo.co.uk Just think of all the
<strong> tags they could have put in those 3GB...
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Strong-Web-Design
forst@mastodon.socia..
replied 20 Feb 2026 20:58 +0000
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