BBC World Service - lite (mastodon.social)
from lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.world on 14 May 2024 17:51
https://lemmy.ml/post/15637088

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15637085

My pals in BBC World Service have been doing some awesome work on “lite” versions of their news articles (other page types to follow). They essentially skip the Server-Side React hydration which means you end up with a simpler HTML+CSS page, no JS. Page sizes drop significantly:

  • Transferred: ~600KB -> 30KB
  • Total: 1.65MB -> 135KB Just append .lite on a URL e.g. www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/crgyyvdz1dro.lite There’s no on/off UX at the moment but they’re working on that too. #WebDev #WebPerf #WebPerformance #BBC

#technology

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onion@feddit.de on 14 May 2024 18:23 next collapse

Oh that’s sweet!

CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 14 May 2024 22:14 next collapse

I remember the transition from plain-text emails to HTML emails. I fought tooth and nail to keep my email fully plain-text because it offered almost 70-80% storage savings. This was when email quotas were measured in megabytes.

Then Gmail came along and made HTML the standard email because they offered 2 GBs of space.

The rest is history.

WalnutLum@lemmy.ml on 15 May 2024 11:49 collapse

Doing gods work here