The Website Obesity Crisis

About this presentation

<span style="font-weight: 400;">For the first time in the history of the Internet, the computers people use to get online are getting slower, smaller, and harder to interact with. Nobody minds the change because the mobile web is so incredibly useful in our daily lives. But while our devices have been getting slimmer, our websites are getting huge. Why is it so easy to blow out a data plan with a few injudicious taps of the finger? What is driving the bloat when everyone claims to hate it? And why do more capable browsers and faster networks only seem to make the problem worse?</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">It's time for some tough talk about frameworks, surveillance, advertising, animation, and phones that get hot to the touch when you check the weather.</span>