QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet

Industry will do absolutely anything, except making lightweight sites.

We had instant internet in the late 90s, if you were lucky enough to have a fast connection. The pages were small and there were barely any javascript. You can still find such fast loading lightweight pages today and the experience is almost surreal.

It feels like the page has completely loaded before you even released the mousebutton.

If only the user experience were better it might have been tolerable but we didn't get that either.

When I was finishing university I bought into the framework-based web-development hype. I thought that "enterprise" web-development has to be done this way. So I got some experience by migrating my homepage to a static VUE.JS version. Binding view and state by passing the variables name as a sting felt off, extending the build env seemed unnecessary complex and everything was slow and has to be done a certain way. But since everyone is using this, this must be right I thought.

I got over this view and just finished the new version of my page. Raw HTML with some static-site-generator templating. The HTML size went down 90%, the JS usage went down 97% and build time is now 2s instead of 20s. The user experience is better and i get 30% more hits since the new version.

The web could be so nice of we used less of it.