A single tweet page is 2.0 MB

#1

Post by skimbrel » Mon, Mar 05, 2012, 3:33 PM UTC

A single tweet page is 2.0 MB
mike.teczno.com

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#2

Post by AdamTReineke » Mon, Mar 05, 2012, 3:53 PM UTC

Maybe so, but how much of that 1.65MB of Javascript is cached by the browser?

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#3

Post by poutine » Mon, Mar 05, 2012, 3:54 PM UTC

His rant doesn't seem too informed: "aggressive anti-performance and apparent contempt for the web by Twitter’s designers"

According to his charts most of Twitter's page is JS/CSS and presumably set to heavily cache. Very little is data. Once you've done the first page load Twitter's pages will load quite fast and efficiently. While quite a lot of JS, this is good design, not bad.

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#4

Post by funkah » Mon, Mar 05, 2012, 3:55 PM UTC

Simplistic.

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#5

Post by untog » Mon, Mar 05, 2012, 3:56 PM UTC

File this under "annoying to developers and no-one else".

Twitter obviously caches 99% of this stuff. I absolutely agree that 2.2MB on one page seems absolutely insane, but that doesn't match up with the experience every time you load the page. And I imagine it's pre-caching code that runs on other pages as well, so you most likely only ever take that download hit once.

Yes, they should bring that amount down. No, it probably isn't going to be a priority.

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Post by webwanderings » Mon, Mar 05, 2012, 3:58 PM UTC

No wonder it takes long for Twitter pages to load. Such things show up only when you're on slower speeds.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 05, 2012, 4:02 PM UTC

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#8

Post by mortenjorck » Mon, Mar 05, 2012, 4:03 PM UTC

poutine wrote: post #3

His rant doesn't seem too informed: "aggressive anti-performance and apparent contempt for the web by Twitter’s designers" According to his charts most of Twitter's page is JS/CSS and presumably set to heavily cache. Very little is data. Once you've done the first page load Twitter's pages will load quite fast and efficiently. While quite a lot of JS, this is good design, not bad.

A more accurate title might be "The Twitter web client is 2.0 MB."

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Post by zacman85 » Mon, Mar 05, 2012, 4:03 PM UTC

Does anyone know how to get those graphs to show up in the current version of WebKit? They seem to have disappeared or are hidden.

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#10

Post by neilmiddleton » Mon, Mar 05, 2012, 4:07 PM UTC

Ah, but how big is the (downloaded) size of the next page on each of those sites?