Comment on Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button?

• fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nah that’s not it. The text content is an infinitesimal portion of a modern Web page.

  Many webpages are > 1mb, that’s a million letters if you will.

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  • Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Articles usually have images and possibly embedded videos. So it’s not just text.

    Even so, a decent webserver wouldn’t really care.

    Maybe it loads faster for mobile users though if you only load text and a single image at first.

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    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not sure what you’re getting at.

      The comment I replied to said that maybe the “read more” button is an effort to conserve bandwidth by only sending half the text.

      I said that the text is such a tiny portion of the bandwidth required to transmit a web page that it wouldn’t make sense to try conserving it by only sending half.

      You’re absolutely correct in that only sending images on the visible part of the page is a common way to conserve bandwidth.

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  • Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’ve got that the wrong way. It’s <1mb. Just read the less than symbol out loud.

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    • Goudewup@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, many web pages are larger than 1mb.

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      • Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh yeah I misunderstood what they were saying my bad

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• pathief@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The cost of making a new request for the rest of the news is higher than just returning the full news. The only use case where this makes sense is where news are behind a paywall and you just want to show a teaser to Anonymous readers.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The only use case where this makes sense is where news are behind a paywall

    It can be particularly good in soft-paywall situations, where you want to give people a certain number of clicks per month before they have to start paying.

    I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen these “keep reading” buttons used in that way, though.

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• Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You mean you can save a couple of kilobytes after having loaded 2MB of java script libraries and trackers?

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