[candiodari]

According to my chrome network tab cnn.com now comes to 1.7 megabyte. Without ad blocking, over double that.

Let's say 20% of that is images (it's actually less) ... it is not a problem to fit quite an extensive C++ program in that.

[gmueckl]

Have you checked the sizes of the Qt libraries lately? QtCore or QtWidgets larger than 5MB each. Qt is simply an enormous amount of code. I currently can't get any of the wasm files for the demos to load to compare those, though.