LA Times and ads
I develop software used by newspapers. This is a problem with the whole industry. It&#x27;s amazing how much crap they load.<p>These sites all use a third party &quot;tag manager&quot; (Google Tag Manager, Tealium, Piwik etc.) to manage the scripts they load: ads, analytics, trackers etc. The people who use the tag manager typically aren&#x27;t techies, so they don&#x27;t understand that adding another tag will cause the page to slow down. Typically I&#x27;ve seen a single newspaper use 3-4 different vendors for the exact same thing, such as analytics. They don&#x27;t actually use all of them; who knows why they have multiple overlapping ones.<p>Scripts are often badly written, and it&#x27;s common to see lots of nonsensical errors spewed to the console. It&#x27;s very annoying to debug your own stuff when you have that crap loaded, which typically comes from a header&#x2F;footer combo provided by the customer.