Why does Safari write to disk?

[Big_D]

Just seems strange that 75 pages can’t run without memory swap on the air…

Generally the OS will kick a lot of those pages into swap if they aren't looked at very often in order to free up memory for other things, like cache or other applications. Putting those unused tabs in swap means it can make the system react quicker to what you are currently doing...

75 is excessive, but each to their own, the 20 or so I generally keep open are probably more than some people would want to see...

 

[HDFan]

Close all but 8-10 tabs.

It is not the number of tabs open that normally has an effect on memory, it is the size of the tab.

it depends on what pages you have open,

Yes. I have some 20 tabs open right now in Safari, the smallest being 40 MB in size I could run > 1000 of those on my system without a memory problem (have a lot of it), although not sure whether Safari could handle the management of that many tabs. It would be an interesting test.

At the other extreme 1 MacRumors tab is taking > 500 MB so the number of tabs that I could with that size is > 10 less in terms of memory use.

 

[Parowdy]

You've got some runaway stuff on your website. In the course of 10 minutes of having a few copies of your homepage open in Firefox, I started getting high CPU utilization alerts and the fans on my new M4 Pro started spinning. Once I closed out, everything returned to normal.

I don't know exactly what it is on your site that's doing this, but there are some scripts there that are not behaving. LOL, did you just cryptojack us and use us to mine for Bitcoin?

Also, having lots of Google Drive pages open to MP3 players eats up more than a typical page in resources. You've got lots of heavies and baddies hidden throughout your inventory of content.

To be honest when they mentioned that it were their own websites that they had open I only then noticed the profile picture and felt like something must be off.

 

[Parowdy]

On the front page of my sites I have a video header playing on loop… I’ve got 7-9 sites all with video mp4 playing… instead of header image…

so you have between seven and nine tabs open with video playing on auto loop on potentially not perfectly designed webpages with 60 more tabs to go and are wondering why your 8 GB M1 MacBook Air is swapping memory?
Bruv