In Snipped Clip, we take a look at scenes deleted from our favorite movies, serving up a little context and offering our own opinions on whether the scenes should have made it to the screen or been left on the cutting-room floor.

The Snipped Clip: “Very Clean House,” from the Another Earth Blu-ray combo pack, released Tuesday. Rhoda (played by Brit Marling) argues with her parents about her future as a janitor, a position she took after being released from prison for her involvement in a fatal car crash.

Analysis: Should it have stayed in? Another Earth is simultaneously about two journeys: the...

Been feeding your site too many JavaScript donuts?

That’s right, based on the top 1,000 most visited sites on the web, the average page download size has jumped 25 percent since this time last year — 626 kB per page to 784 kB. That’s a hefty weight gain in just a year and of course usually the larger the page, the slower the page.

The latest page size data comes from the HTTP Archive, which keeps monthly tabs on the size of web pages.

As you might expect the largest single type of content on the average page is...