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Alex Russell
@infrequently.org

How broken is today's frontend culture? A friend points out that the median *mobile* page is now larger than a copy of DOOM (2.6 MiB vs. 2.48 MiB), the 75th percentile page is more than 2 DOOMs, and the P90 mobile page is 4.5x the size of DOOM: httparchive.org/reports/page...

httparchive.orgHTTP Archive: Page WeightThis report tracks the size and quantity of many popular web page resources. Sizes represent the number of bytes sent over the network, which may be compressed.
naugtur
@naugtur.pl

That's content. The grief is about the 1.5MB of JavaScript being loaded on a page that should serve the content and not be a photo editing app or a game in the browser. It's a glitch in incentives that would make things better if awareness is raised. At least IMHO

Jake Archibald
@jakearchibald.com

Sigh. Back in the early 2010s jQuery folks would defend the size of JS libraries because it's just the same as a JPEG. Years later they grew up and acknowledged that it wasn't equivalent. I guess it's 10 years later so we have to go through the cycle again.

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