Google Homepage Size Over Time • Hacker News Board

Re: Google Homepage Size Over Time

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Post by mithras » Sat, Oct 13, 2012, 6:58 AM UTC

jackfoxy wrote: post #16

ashray wrote: post #13

I find this interesting as well as unimportant at the same time. Interesting because it shows that Google has responded to increasing connection speeds by adding bells and whistles to their homepage. That's really great. Unimportant because with Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc. - going to the google homepage is almost entirely optional. Google is working so hard into baking themselves into almost any facet of web…

Strangely, Google is killing off the one thing that keeps me going to their sorta homepage , iGoogle. When they finally do kill it about a year from now, I'll have to come up with some substitute which may not be so Google-centric.

Yeah I don't understand why they do that, igoogle is pretty good and I use it alot.

Re: Google Homepage Size Over Time

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Post by pud » Sat, Oct 13, 2012, 7:04 AM UTC

ashishb4u wrote: post #20

ashray wrote: post #13

I find this interesting as well as unimportant at the same time. Interesting because it shows that Google has responded to increasing connection speeds by adding bells and whistles to their homepage. That's really great. Unimportant because with Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc. - going to the google homepage is almost entirely optional. Google is working so hard into baking themselves into almost any facet of web…

..and to ping internet :)

Google has some kinda fancy browser caching, such that it's not a great way to test if your internet connection is working. Even with a shift-refresh.

Re: Google Homepage Size Over Time

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Post by ISL » Sat, Oct 13, 2012, 7:12 AM UTC

zzzwat wrote: post #23

? $ curl -sL http://google.com | wc -c 11328

Plot updated to answer your question. There's a big difference between that which is served to curl and to a browser.

Thank you!

Re: Google Homepage Size Over Time

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Post by abrahamsen » Sat, Oct 13, 2012, 7:42 AM UTC

drcube wrote: post #18

philip1209 wrote: post #14

The label of the ordinate contains an error - kilobyte = byte * 1024, as opposed to byte / 1024

No, #bytes * (1 kilobyte)/(1024 bytes) = #kilobytes or bytes/1024=kilobytes, for short. Basically, it's a conversion factor, not a definition.

Might want to consider using the unambiguous term kibibyte instead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte

It is a tradeoff, it avoids the need to explain which definition of kilo is used, at the cost of using a far less common term.

Re: Google Homepage Size Over Time

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Post by philp » Sat, Oct 13, 2012, 7:50 AM UTC

ashray wrote: post #22

ashishb4u wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

..and to ping internet :)

I replaced that long ago with 'ping 8.8.8.8'. Still google but not quite the homepage.

You won't know if your DNS is down in that case :)

Re: Google Homepage Size Over Time

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Post by riffraff » Sat, Oct 13, 2012, 8:14 AM UTC

philp wrote: post #35

ashray wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I replaced that long ago with 'ping 8.8.8.8'. Still google but not quite the homepage.

You won't know if your DNS is down in that case :)

well, the DNS would be 8.8.8.8 anyway :)

Re: Google Homepage Size Over Time

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Post by qxcv » Sat, Oct 13, 2012, 8:15 AM UTC

ISL wrote: post #30

ISL wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I definitely used id_ . I saved the source that I used; I'll recheck things.

Should be fixed now. The last point is still ~100k. Running Chromium, if I'm logged in, google.com's HTML saves as 104k. Logged out, it's 94k, as measured by ls -lh.

Looks good. I was using cURL, so that explains the ~100k vs. ~28k discrepancy.

Re: Google Homepage Size Over Time

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Post by wilfra » Sat, Oct 13, 2012, 8:41 AM UTC

mithras wrote: post #31

jackfoxy wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Strangely, Google is killing off the one thing that keeps me going to their sorta homepage , iGoogle. When they finally do kill it about a year from now, I'll have to come up with some substitute which may not be so Google-centric.

Yeah I don't understand why they do that, igoogle is pretty good and I use it alot.

I don't even know what igoogle is or does.

User adoption is what drives features like this to remain, not how useful they are.

Re: Google Homepage Size Over Time

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Post by namanyayg » Sat, Oct 13, 2012, 8:59 AM UTC

ashray wrote: post #13

I find this interesting as well as unimportant at the same time. Interesting because it shows that Google has responded to increasing connection speeds by adding bells and whistles to their homepage. That's really great. Unimportant because with Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc. - going to the google homepage is almost entirely optional. Google is working so hard into baking themselves into almost any facet of web…

Totally agree to your point of view--Google is growing, then what's the problem if the code grows? It doesn't matter, what matters is that the load time is low.

Re: Google Homepage Size Over Time

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