Actually, it’s a story in itself that a problem noted by an older article is still relevant enough to be discussed.  In the 6 months since, has the industry even <i>looked</i> at this or is it even worse?<p>A fast-moving industry needs equally-fast solutions.  If 6 months can pass and people are still talking about a problem as if it was yesterday, then not enough has happened.  Some ideas of more that could be done: talk to your web-developer friends; have them talk to their managers; start publicly shaming bloated web sites; submit issues and&#x2F;or pull requests to web browser projects with ideas for how to fix HTML; or something.