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by jacobr 3336 days ago
> Check any reasonable site from youtube to amazon, they download ~ 1MB gzipped data on load and do just fine.

What's important is how much you need to download to be able to do the first meaningful interaction. Downloading 5mb of JavaScript and CSS for your cool dashboard graph might be fine, but you should not need to download that much just to get some reasonable layout or have a look at the possible menu alternatives.