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Re: 1MB Club

#31

Post by gfxgirl » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 6:53 PM UTC

I'm pretty happy with my bloated mess. Glad youtube and Spotify aren't limited to 1meg

Glad Google Maps lets me view the world in 3D and with street views and make custom maps, and read reviews with photos, etc. Don't care that it takes more than 1meg.

Love Apple's beautiful pages like the Macbook Air page at 14meg

Re: 1MB Club

#32

Post by imheretolearn » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 6:54 PM UTC

I was once asked to debug an extremely slowly loading page. In the first 5 minutes it was evident that the client was doing things it wasn't supposed to do. It was downloading 300MB worth of resources to show the webpage. Incorrect implementations and inefficient use of libraries is the reason why we're seeing a bloated websites all over the web

Re: 1MB Club

#33

Post by gen220 » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 6:55 PM UTC

stonogo wrote: post #25

conception wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a search engine that tries to do something like this... searches mainly for blogs and whatnot and I’m so sorry I can’t remember the name of it. :( Ironically you can google about and find it probably.

Is it https://wiby.me ? If not, I'd love to know more!

The surprise me feature has yielded some really good links!

"Doom as a tool for system administration" [1], "What can you do with a slide rule?" [2], and of course some vintage 90s personal pages... some of which have been actively maintained to this day (!) [3]

edit: that last page has some incredibly-detailed information about the various cars he's owned [4]

[1]: https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/

[2]: http://www.math.utah.edu/~pa/sliderules/

[3]: http://www.billswebspace.com/

[4]: http://www.billswebspace.com/124Abarth.html

Re: 1MB Club

#34

Post by the__prestige » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 6:55 PM UTC

I suspect this site's page will soon not qualify to be a part of this club :)

Re: 1MB Club

#35

Post by m-chrzan » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 6:56 PM UTC

Nice! I've gotten so jaded with how big and slow most of the modern web is, that randomly stumbling upon a tiny site prompted me to write about the joy of it on my blog (a much less than 1MB site itself): https://m-chrzan.xyz/blog/small-big-sites.html

Re: 1MB Club

#36

Post by vmception » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 6:58 PM UTC

We are finally just starting to see a contender for web3.js to get the same functionality without a bloated package size

Re: 1MB Club

#37

Post by addedlovely » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 6:59 PM UTC

shepherdjerred wrote: post #29

soheil wrote: post #23

Interesting that a site that champions for performance has an ungodly favicon [0] that is 10x larger (15KB) than the page itself. [0] https://1mb.club/favicon.ico

What kind of an internet connection are you on that 15kb is significant? Performance is important, but if your site is clocking in at 17kb then you're probably doing okay.

May seem pedantic but those little gains do add up. A missing favicon also has a surprising impact.

Re: 1MB Club

#38

Post by suyash » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 6:59 PM UTC

gfxgirl wrote: post #31

I'm pretty happy with my bloated mess. Glad youtube and Spotify aren't limited to 1meg Glad Google Maps lets me view the world in 3D and with street views and make custom maps, and read reviews with photos, etc. Don't care that it takes more than 1meg. Love Apple's beautiful pages like the Macbook Air page at 14meg

what if those experiences could be provided with a smaller footprint? Try to think bigger than yourself. It would no doubt be faster but also would consume less bandwidth, less storage, less compute = less power meaning good for the environment.

Re: 1MB Club

#39

Post by rfrey » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 7:00 PM UTC

stonogo wrote: post #25

conception wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a search engine that tries to do something like this... searches mainly for blogs and whatnot and I’m so sorry I can’t remember the name of it. :( Ironically you can google about and find it probably.

Is it https://wiby.me ? If not, I'd love to know more!

That is a brilliant site, thank you.

Re: 1MB Club

#40

Post by bombela » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 7:01 PM UTC

shepherdjerred wrote: post #29

soheil wrote: post #23

Interesting that a site that champions for performance has an ungodly favicon [0] that is 10x larger (15KB) than the page itself. [0] https://1mb.club/favicon.ico

What kind of an internet connection are you on that 15kb is significant? Performance is important, but if your site is clocking in at 17kb then you're probably doing okay.

But when you start this way, you quickly endup with the bloat that is modern software. Because each extra bit of waste seems justified at every steps along the way.