[jsprogrammer]

That "small text page" weighs in around 2.1MB.

[thomasfoster96]

I thought you were referring to the HN page, which is what the comment seems to suggest to me.

[jsprogrammer]

HN is probably small, but often suffers from bad latency.

[thomasfoster96]

Depends on where you are - HN uses cloudflare, so it can be incredibly quick (even on 3G on a mobile) if you hit a cached page.