The Website Obesity Crisis
&gt; The article somehow contrives to be 18 megabytes long, including (in the page view I measured) a 3 megabyte video for K-Y jelly, an &quot;intimate lubricant&quot;.<p>(Warning. Swear words incoming, because the situation has grown far out of control)<p>Fuck websites with autoplay (or autoplay-on-hover) videos. Fuck them. Whoever has invented or implemented this crap, please resign from your post immediately.<p>Even in 1st world countries, people use 3G&#x2F;4G with data caps to work or are in otherwise bandwidth-constrained environments (public hotspots, train&#x2F;bus wifi) etc. You are screwing over your users and don&#x27;t realize it.<p>Also, something especially Spiegel Online comes to mind: 30 secs video clip with a 25s advertising clip. Fuck you.<p>&gt; Why not just serve regular HTML without stuffing it full of useless crap? The question is left unanswered.<p>Easy actually: because a well-defined restricted subset of HTML can be machine-audited and there is no way to abuse it. Also, Google can save resources at indexing.