Comment by mch0lic1

It's a daily fight for me. The underlying issue is that everyone is chasing profits and larger sites have multiple teams working on them (dev, seo, marketing, sales, etc). So while devs might be trying to optimize as much as they can, other teams can come and put 3 google analytics-like trackers, affiliate trackers, heatmap analytics, live chats, 3rd party popup services that collects emails, etc. And don't get me started on oversized images with 0 compression... And the worst part, those poorly written affiliate trackers, popups and live chats actually bringing revenue so there is always a push for more.