The 49MB Web Page A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

The 49 MB Web Page, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

#performance #ux #embedcode

Third Parties | 2025 | The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive Third Parties chapter of the 2025 Web Almanac covering data of what third parties are used on the web and an analysis of inclusion chains of third parties.

Third Parties, by @httparchive.org:

https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/third-parties

#webalmanac #studies #research #metrics #embedcode

Third Parties and Single Points of Failure You've heard it many times - third party content can easily cause an otherwise well performing website to become sluggish and slow. And depending on how this content is loaded, it can also introduce single points of failure (SPOFs). When a large cloud provider or content delivery network (CDN) exper

Third Parties and Single Points of Failure, by @paulcalvano@webperf.social (@perfplanet.bsky.social):

calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/third-parties-and-s...

#performance #embedcode #metrics

Partytown: Optimize Third Party Scripts with Web Workers | DebugBear Third-party resources often weigh down websites and can be tricky to fine-tune for performance. Learn how to use web workers and Partytown to improve your page speed.

Partytown: Optimize Third Party Scripts With Web Workers, by @jacobandrewsky.bsky.social (@debugbear.com):

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/partytown-web-workers

#libraries #embedcode #webworkers #performance #optimization