I am on a slow mobile connection and the site takes really long (several minutes) to load in my browser.
Analysing the bandwidth use in Chrome inspector shows the site's bandwidth consumption:
Total:
4.2MB of 142 requests, taking 9.6 min to complete
Javascript files: 2.5MB of 74 requests
CSS files: 1MB of 33 requests
Images: 590kB of 26 requests
This is way too much for a normal page.
Why does it need megabytes of JavaScript and CSS?
What is the JavaScript functionality?
What is the advanced CSS styling that consumes such bandwidth?
Next, clicking on https://promo-steem.com/ambassadors/
effectively refreshes the site with all the previous requests lost.
Even with cache enabled, this small page alone consumes 500kB
with 95 requests, half of it again coming from JavaScript.
As someone traveling on limited mobile data plans, this is something I have to watch for as it can drain my data limits very quick.
They've asked for feedback, so I am providing it here, why it is wrong place?
There are no comments on their site, it is the site they ask to comment on, not the steemit.
The bandwidth stat I am giving is not related to hardware. Other pages show instantly.
Interestingly enough, the current Steemit page with hundreds of comments loads within seconds and takes less than 300kB bandwidth.