Page Bloat

The Important Thing

Be mindful for every KB you add to a webpage. It needs to add something important to the content. Automate the optimization.

The rest of the stuff below…honestly…is for anyone who reads this and needs convincing. :P

2015 / Idle Words

• http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

2012 / 1 Megabyte

• https://gigaom.com/2012/05/23/the-growing-epidemic-of-page-bloat/ - ~1MB

2014 / 2 Megabytes

• https://gigaom.com/2014/12/29/the-overweight-web-average-web-page-size-is-up-15-in-2014/ - ~2MB
• https://www.soasta.com/blog/page-bloat-average-web-page-2-mb/ - ~2MB

2016 / 2.3 Megabytes

• https://www.keycdn.com/support/the-growth-of-web-page-size/ - ~2.3MB
• https://www.wired.com/2016/04/average-webpage-now-size-original-doom/ - ~2.3MB

2017 / 3.5 Megabytes

• http://www.httparchive.org/interesting.php?a=All&l=Dec%201%202017