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by jraph 3086 days ago
(Edit: pwinnski was faster than me)

I think 2.7MB is the size of the average web page on the Web on mobile (3.4M on desktop). Which is quite scary. (Edit: though this may refer to pages that are being developed and tested in Page Speed, see the other comment).

I wrote a whole (private, small) website with pictures (photos and images) and styles that includes a maze using JavaScript in 0.6 MB total. I didn't spend too much time in optimizing this.

I cheated a bit: links in this website point to anchors in the same HTML file. This does mean that without this trick, one page would be even lighter.

I would find it hard to write a 3MB webpage without doing it on purpose. Something is wrong with Web development. Stop wasting resources!

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Ripppp I just put up a new site and Google is saying that it took 6 round trips and 4.1mb to fully render.... http://www.themindsetapp.com . It's just a wordpress site atm, any tips to reduce it?