Maciej Ceglowski - The Website Obesity Crisis [Web Directions 2015 Keynote]
Why Hacker News recommends it
Brought up as the classic critique of web bloat whenever slow or heavy sites are discussed.
What it is
Maciej Ceglowski's Web Directions 2015 keynote on website bloat, arguing that pages have grown far heavier than their content justifies. This is a re-upload of the original talk.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2020 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Recommends jcynix · 2020-12 · on “The mythical “fast” web page”
Fat, slow loading, unresponsive web pages? Maybe it's time again to remember Maciej Ceglowski's "Web Directions 2015 Keynote": The Website Obesity Crisis [this video]
Cites grishka · 2021-05 · on “Faster web fonts”
Yeah I mean > This is a good base because it lets website visitors start reading your content right away They're already reading the content. The one job your website had has already been accomplished without the custom font. As this guy[1] said, you first serve what's essential for your website's functionality, and then you stop. [1] [this video]
Cites renegat0x0 · 2023-09 · on “Why do software nowadays take so much more memory and processing power”
It is more true about the Internet. More and more web pages use more bloated libraries, and more complex solutions. There is more data, more communication, more patterns, more services, more styles. If you want a blog there is no need for fancy libraries with a fancy frameworks, probably. I think this could be passed to the whole software / hardware situation. Do you need a fancy desktop? Does not Gnome look better than XFCE? But you want a shiny desktop with nice animations, nice icons. It is also required by the producent for the product to be more complicated and fragile. Now you cannot have offline software. There needs to be telemetry. Therefore there need to be internet logins. Therefo
Cites renegat0x0 · 2026-03 · on “'Your Frustration Is the Product'”
Reminds me of "Website obesity crisis" - [this video] - [LINK] Some say that you should not use ad blocker, because that kills ad revenue, but I did not forced anybody to rely with their lives on ad revenue. Many of things were 'free' because we were all just using ad blocks, and then it all became commodified, simplified, so simpletons without ad blocks became a thing. Now they shame people for using ad blocks, even though it stops spreading malware and viruses. I plan to use ad block, and use as many extensions that protect me. If there is some form of goods, be it streaming movies, audio, books I will happily pay for it. I will not accept a web with ads. I prefer touch grass. There is a clear