BBC World Service - lite (mastodon.social)

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cross-posted from: https://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. https://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

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[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 months ago

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.

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