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Depends on the complexity of the page. A lot of sites with heavier JS and SPAs eat a lot of memory which can cause problems for users of the many laptops out there with 4/8GB of RAM, as well as many smartphone users who have 2GB of RAM or less. In the case of the latter visiting a heavy website can be enough to prompt the OS to kill some other app to make memory available, which means in that situation one's site is in direct competition with other things the user may be needing more than the site.



That's a problem with the dingus that wrote all that JavaShit, not a problem with the end user's computer.

We have 20+ core consumer-grade CPUs and double- to triple-digit RAM and the internet at-large (read: Web2.0) still runs like it's the 1970s.




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