On a curious note, what's Hacker News score? Seems ala carte minimal no?
Chrome Devtools says a very respectable 62.6 kB
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#92I love it!
I feel like the 1MB limit is excessively generous, especially for text-only pages. But maybe that's what makes it so damning when pages fail to adhere to it. I know at least one website I maintain fails it spectacularly (though in my defense it's entirely because of that website being chock-full of photos, and full-res ones at that; pages without those are well under that 1MB mark), while other sites I've built consist entirely of pages within a fraction of that limit.
It'd be interesting to impose a stricter limitation to the 1MB Club: one where all pages on a given site are within that limit. This would disqualify Craigslist, for example (the listing search pages blow that limit out of the water, and the listings themselves sometimes do, too).
I also wonder how many sites 1mb.club would have to show on one page before it, too, ends up disqualifying itself. Might be worthwhile to start thinking about site categories sooner rather than later if everyone and their mothers starts spamming that GitHub issues page with sites (like I'm doing right now).
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#93In some ways it's interesting to think that a modern website is larger than most operating systems used to be. I can understand why (frameworks, rich assets, etc) but it puts us in an interesting place. I wonder what the web will look like in 2030?
Indeed, I remember running QNX from a floppy disk (1.44MB) complete with windowing system and utilities.
Yeah, that sounds about right. I remember MS DOS used to fit on a 720k floppy -- back when they were literally floppy...
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#96How accurate is this list? I see it mentions that visiting https://danluu.com/ downloads only 9.1 kB but when I actually visit this website with Google Chrome, in the Developer Tools' Network tab, I see that a total of 21.7 kB is transferred. Name Status Type Size ------------ ------ -------- -------- danluu.com 200 document 2.5 kB analytics.js 200 script 18.9 kB collect 200 xhr 67 B favicon.ico 404 text/html 266 B S…
Are you not using an ad blocker? danluu.com has google-analytics, which is a very large script. Please use uBlock Origin.
I don't think an ad blocker should be assumed when calculating the size of a web page.
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#97Interesting 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
I did a quick Google search and discovered that SVG favicons are valid in most browsers, so for fun I reduced it by 95% down to 886 bytes:
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#98My personal fav: 148kb, $530B company. https://www.berkshirehathaway.com
Copyright © 1978-2020 Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Can it be assumed that this same website has been in place since 1978? Obviously not exactly like it is now, but probably not far off.
HTML being from the early 90s or so, I wanna say "no."
I wonder what the logic for the 1978 date is. It's hard for me to believe they had any reasonably connected predecessor of this in 1978.
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#99My question for these kinds of complaints is, how do is it proposed we implement the same features and value that can be provided currently, with fewer downloas?
Could we have Facebook without a huge download? Is this saying the web should not have these features? Are we intended to download each new application separately on a PC like we do mobile?
I see so many complains about "the bloated web", but no solution that let's us keep the tremendous value the internet has given to the world. It just comes across so short-sighted and reactionary.
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#100Would be better if ranked by size:content instead of size alone.