$ cat /top10/Mon Mar 16 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)/the-49mb-web-page-a-news-site-bloat-audit-96
A developer audited news websites and found pages shipping nearly 50MB of JavaScript, trackers, and ads — orders of magnitude beyond what content requires. A sobering look at how broken modern web performance has become.
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