<i>The fact that there isn&#x27;t a daily drumbeat about how bloated, how needlessly complex, how ridicuous most of the world&#x27;s web appliactions of today really are - baffles me.</i><p>I feel Jakob Nielsen used to majorly play this role amongst Web developers back in the day, but for some reason I haven&#x27;t seen him come across my radar for many years now. The Web performance experts now are better than ever but I don&#x27;t get the sense of the majority of the industry hanging off their every word as seemed to happen with Jakob 10+ years ago.