> There’s a lot that has to go on between the backend and frontend to make modern websites with all their dynamic moving pieces, tons of video/imagery, and heavy marketing/analytics scripts run on a single thread

So there's a lot going on...with absolutely terrible sites that do everything they can to be user-hostile? The poor dears! We may need to break out the electron microscope to image the teeny tiny violin I will play for them.

All of that crap is not only unnecessary it's pretty much all under the category of anti-features. It's hard to read shit moving around a page or having a video playing underneath. Giant images and autoplaying video are a waste of my resources on the client side. They drain my battery and eat into my data caps.

The easiest web performance engineering anyone can do is fire any and all marketers, managers, or executives that ask for autoplaying videos and bouncing fade-in star wipe animations as a user scrolls a page.

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jameslk 5 days ago | parent [-]

> The easiest web performance engineering anyone can do is fire any and all marketers, managers, or executives

Your solution to web performance issues is to fire people?

	▲	giantrobot 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		When they're the cause of the web performance problems it isn't the worst idea. The individual IC trying to get a site to load in a reasonable amount of time isn't pushing for yet another tracking framework loaded from yet another CDN or just a few more auto-playing videos in a pop-over window that can only be dismissed with a sub-pixel button.