Want to view a single image on @imgur (literally its only job)? Good luck! You gotta successfully download (354KB) and run (1.21MB) of client-side React in order to get your image requested as resource 110 of 553. What should have been an IMG element became… this. 
• Total page weight: 5,961KB
• Image I wanted to view: 37.5KB
Put another way, this page was 158.96× heavier than it needed to be.
• Image I wanted to view: 37.5KB
Put another way, this page was 158.96× heavier than it needed to be.
What’s even more even more disgusting is that THIS IS THEIR M-DOT SITE. This was a deliberate strategy for serving mobile devices. This industry needs some sort of regulatory body.
This thread brought to you by genuinely not being able to load @imgur on my data-roaming iPhone X and wondering (not for long—the telling stains of JS apps are apparent) why.
@imgur Me, an IMG element, vs. you, a 17× engineer.
Six weeks into imgur mobile redesign: *scrum master finds index card stuck to bottom of empty kombucha bottle in bean bag room* Fuck! The image! We forgot the image!
