CNN’s website
March 20th, 2008
You would think that a heavy-traffic site such as CNN would want to have everything tuned up for speed, response time, etc.. Not to mention best practices, but anyhow. So what am I talking about? Gobs of resources, and gobs of requests. Take a look at their JavaScript alone! 34 requests topping out at OVER 1 MEGABYTE!!!!:
Amateurs.