No surprise, they have to compress like mad and avoid superfluous http requests. That sort of optimisation will never look fancy
I wonder why there are multiple style elements, in div#footcnt there are 2 right next to each other, they could have saved a whole "</style><style>" there, think of the bandwidth!
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I wonder if the giant script was an external file, and now it's being splat on the page?
The other day I noticed that they're inlining image data in the src attribute instead of pointing at an external URL. Really taking things to the next level all-around - I wonder when that will become the norm instead of css image sprites.
Click-bait ;)
I don't get it, what's the point of this post? How is it adding any new knowledge to the readers?
And here I thought this was a post about the google.com source code being leaked. :-)
I'd imagine that the rendered HTML is probably produced by a legacy system that stitches together a lot of different templates, some maybe even unintentionally.