|Source: Frederic Filloux|
When reading this 800 words Guardian story — about half of page of text long — your web browser loads the equivalent of 55 pages of HTML code, almost half a million characters. To be precise: an article of 757 words (4667 characters and spaces), requires 485,527 characters of code ... “useful” text (the human-readable article) weighs less than one percent (0.96%) of the underlying browser code. The rest consists of links (more than 600) and scripts of all types (120 references), related to trackers, advertising objects, analytics, etc.But he ends on a somewhat less despairing note. Follow me below the fold for a faint ray of hope.