Slashdot Redesigns: What’s the cost?
So slashdot.org is now running a CSS / HTML 4.01 solution that generates nice, snappy pages with quick load time. It uses less bandwidth than before, and is mostly standards compliant. Except, there’s a catch. Using the free load time analysis tool I found online, I found the following breakdown:
HTML: 11792
HTML Images: 1859
CSS Images: 0
Total Images: 1859
Javascript: 23469
CSS: 507
Multimedia: 0
Other: 0
Wow… 23kb of javascript! Where does slashdot use javascript? Well, they use it to serve all their ads, of course. Let’s look at a graph:
Now, ask yourself the following question:
Do I want to visit a website that is composed of 63% advertising?
For more information on the Slashdot CSS story from different perspectives, please see:
- weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2005/09/slashdot_css.cfm
- www.gabrielserafini.com/archives/2005/09/22/sure-sign-that-the-apocolypse-is-near-slashdot-goes-to-clean-html-401-css
- www.raphil.org/archives/2005/09/slashdot_is_sta.html
- www.downloadsquad.com/2005/09/06/slashdot-finally-going-css-needs-beta-testers/
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