PCGamer Article Performance Audit

Research: PCGamer Article Performance Audit

Stuart Breckenridge pointed out that PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading, highlighting a truly horrifying example of web bloat that added up to 100s more MBs thanks to auto-playing video ads. I decided to have Claude Code for web use Rodney to investigate the page – prompt here.

Tags: web-performance, rodney