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by djeric3 2982 days ago
Facebook.com, LinkedIn.com, and Google Sheets ship ~1MB of JS compressed for their main pages, which is 5-10 MB of JS uncompressed. So JS parsing time ends up taking hundreds of milliseconds on initial load.

And of course, people want to build even richer experiences (live streaming, 360 media, etc) so there is a lot of appetite for loading more code in the same amount of time.