[ktRolster]

You should check out Google's homepage sometime. One wouldn't expect that such a simple front would hide so many k of Javascript, but I guess it does a lot.

[foepys]

On my 2016 MBP Google keeps a constant 20% load on a single core. Sometimes it's even up to 60%. I really don't know what Google is doing there.

[joelthelion]

Mining bitcoins? :-D

[colejohnson66]

Well, there is that instant search feature that starts showing results once you start typing.

[microcolonel]

That's gone actually, they removed it a few weeks ago IIRC. I don't use Google though, not sure if it's still enabled in some places. In fact, I'm not really sure what ktRolster is talking about; it is 150KiB, but honestly that's pretty small for a page these days, especially one with any images (today it's a google doodle, so normally it would be about 24KiB smaller).

[ktRolster]

Here you go, I uploaded an image of the file transfers showing just the html and javascript:

https://imgur.com/a/aTpj2

[microcolonel]

Ahh, now I see. I had cookies disabled, which apparently changes everything. It's something more like 480KiB for me now. Yikes, such a simple page.

I wonder how much is in a typical person's cache though.