Have you realized the speed of the internet now and before? You may have thought it to be faster. Yes, it has become quicker but the size of pages has increased so much that the average site is now 2.1 MB in size. And according to the data tracked by HTML Archive.
The reason for this increase in the size of web pages is because the website has started adding more attention-attracting videos, images, interactivity plug-ins. Thus the web is getting slower not because of the internet speed but due to the size of increasing webpages.
Other things make the web content heavy like other code and script-heavy features that clog up broadband pipes and wireless spectrum. There has been various use of third-party apps, and the web has been featured with so many options and space that people don’t care about the amount of page size.
This generally affects the one who chooses to view the pages. It’s even irritating at times that these pages take so long to load and gets stuck at times. It is, of course, hard to get all those objects to be charged. And in today’s date, almost every website is using videos so that user would love to watch one.
Even the news site prefer to have a video with their news, and the entertainment world is always ahead in that job. If you search for the lyrics of a song, you will find the video on the page as well. This is because there is sharing of information at its best.
Generally, the site uses different apps to know the rating of their websites and no of visitors. In this way, the addition of application keeps on making the pages have more weight and load slow. Those tracking applications that webpages uses not only takes more weight but have the task of fetching so many functions which will lead to slower load times.
However, photos and videos have been the bulkiest part of the webpages, and that has remained the same from quite a long time. Nowadays people have got so many devices to view the web; therefore developers try to make pages perfect so that even the images display according to the size of the tools like smartphones, tablets, etc. And the complexity of making such changes according to the devices also increase the bulk of the website as the code has to be improved.
Not just the pictures but with the increase in types of devices in today’s days like smart tv, smart watches there are so many factors the developers need to take care of. The challenge of the website being the dynamic one is still there increasing the number of codes at a high rate.
“The shift from desktop to mobile requests and consumption have had the biggest impact on website performance,” said Craig Adams, VP of Web experience products at Akamai, a content delivery network that services 15% to 30% of all online traffic daily. There is an issue for security for the website too as hackers have been more experienced and pages are to be adequately secured. This need also increases the bulk of the site.