Neil Craig

2024-05-14 14:55:04

My pals in BBC World Service have been doing some awesome work on "lite" versions of their news articles (other page types to follow).
They essentially skip the Server-Side React hydration which means you end up with a simpler HTML+CSS page, no JS.
Page sizes drop significantly:
* Transferred: ~600KB -> 30KB
* Total: 1.65MB -> 135KB
Just append `.lite` on a URL e.g. https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/crgyyvdz1dro.lite
There's no on/off UX at the moment but they're working on that too.
#WebDev #WebPerf #WebPerformance #BBC

Corea del Norte: el hombre que lanza botellas llenas de arroz al mar desde Corea del Sur para salvar vidas en el Norte

Desertores norcoreanos llevan años arrojando al mar botellas que contienen arroz, memorias USB, una copia de la Biblia y billetes de un dólar.

^{Rachel Lee (BBC News Mundo)}