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Shameless self-promotion: the homepage of plaintextsports.com is 5.2kb today [1], an in-progress WNBA game (4th quarter) is 11.2kb [2], and an extra inning MLB game is 8.8kb [3]. I wasn't aware of this size threshold, and I'm not at this level of optimization, but I'm always pleased to find more evidence of my playful claim that it's the "fastest website in the history of the internet". [1]: https://plaintextsports.c…
FWIW, the HN frontpage is 33kB. It's one of the better performing websites I frequent.
The thing is tbough, a user who frequently uses satellite Internet or a 2G mobile connection will learn that pages take a while to download over that connection, and they will adjust their expectations accordingly. Satellite Internet users aren't giving up on pages every 7s. They're waiting because they know the page will load slowly.
I suspect most users wait for a page if most pages are slow. So long as your website is no slower than the average then you're probably not losing many visitors.
Obviously that's not to say you shouldn't make your website as fast as you can. You should. Everyone will appreciate the effort. But don't assume that knocking a few seconds off the TTI time will actually impact your conversion metrics. It probably won't (but only a proper study can prove it either way).
What platform did you use to build your website? I like how fast it loads!
I'm getting 62 bytes over the network and 31.4 kilobytes uncompressed. This page has more content than most pages I visit that are megabytes in size. I wish there was an incentive to go back to smaller web pages in general.
The issue, I think, is that the web has become a kind of lowest common denominator app platform, which isn't really what it was originally designed for.
Also known as evolution.
Shameless self-promotion: the homepage of plaintextsports.com is 5.2kb today [1], an in-progress WNBA game (4th quarter) is 11.2kb [2], and an extra inning MLB game is 8.8kb [3]. I wasn't aware of this size threshold, and I'm not at this level of optimization, but I'm always pleased to find more evidence of my playful claim that it's the "fastest website in the history of the internet". [1]: https://plaintextsports.c…