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Making a Website Under 1kB

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Re: Making a Website Under 1kB

#5
I managed under 1.5KB for a page that has an actual function, not just a test:

http://www.captiveportal.co.uk

And yes, that’s supposed to be a non-https link.

I think the entire site, including favicon, might be under 5KB. You can check here:

https://github.com/josharcheruk/CaptivePortal

Re: Making a Website Under 1kB

#7

I managed under 1.5KB for a page that has an actual function, not just a test: http://www.captiveportal.co.uk And yes, that’s supposed to be a non-https link. I think the entire site, including favicon, might be under 5KB. You can check here: https://github.com/josharcheruk/CaptivePortal

Well, the function is not in the content so your website could even be completely empty. I would say https://cv.tdarb.org/ has more function.

Re: Making a Website Under 1kB

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That's pretty hacky, but still clever.

Out of curiosity, I recently wrote a little Elisp function to compute the "markup overhead" on a typical NY Times article, i.e. the number of characters in the main HTML page versus the number in a text rendering of it. It turns out that the page is 98.5% overhead. That doesn't even count the pointless images, ads, and tracking scripts that would also get pulled in by a normal browser. Including those, loading a simple 1000-word article probably incurs well over 99% overhead. Wow!

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