• ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    It’s the pages. It’s all the JavaScript. And especially the HTML5 stuff. The amount of code that is executed in a webpage these days is staggering. And JS isn’t exactly a computationally modest language.

    Of the 200kB loaded on a typical Wikipedia page, about 85kb of it is JS and CSS.

    Another 45kB for a single SVG, which in complex cases is a computationally nontrivial image format.

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      I don’t agree. It’s both. I’ve opened basic no JS sites on old tablets to test them out and even those pages BARELY load