There are no less than sixteen domains all running scripts on the cnet homepage, and well over twenty domains running scripts on any given article. That's just insane.
Every time your browser has to get a .js file from some other server, it's going to slow down. If it has to wait for that script to fetch another .js file from another server (and then for that script to go get yet another .js or two from yet another server or two), it going to slow down even more.
It could be worse, though. NBC News's site heavily tends to just whitescreen if any of a few critical scripts break or are blocked. At least CNET vaguely resembles an actual website when its javascripts go bad or gone.
This site loads slow on Windows. It always loaded slow, but now it loads even slower. Like 5 times slower.
It's hard to find the videos.
I'm looking for that new show with Shannon. I can't find it.
I use a podcast manager to watch podcasts.
It hasn't updated in a few days. And it's not the podcast player. Other shows updated.
And cnet update, I subscribe to the HD feed.
It looks like it was showing the SD feed.

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