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Spoiler: they are making hundreds of requests per visitor. Welcome to “modern” webdev!

What's wrong with that? Lucidchart is a fully-featured application that runs in a web browser with a cloud-backend. I don't understand what you're trying to argue. That you have to optimize for request count? Why?

There's an argument to be made that this [0] (generated via [1]) is not something to be celebrated. But that's just me, not necessarily what the parent poster had in mind.

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/LhEahvi.png

[1]: https://www.evidon.com/solutions/trackermap/

Exactly.

This is what's known as 'moving the goalpost'. OP never mentioned that their issues with lucidchart were due to them using ad trackers and analytics libraries. They talked about how terrible it was that an application made a ton of requests. If they have an issue with the former, I take their point.

Because it is a web browser with a cloud-backend?

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