[kevingadd]

I'm in complete agreement that 4.39MB in any number of requests is too much, but I've got bad news for you about the average webpage: It's that or worse, and you pay a similar cost every time you navigate to a new page on the same site. At least for a webapp you pay that cost once and then can navigate freely within it.

Devrel people from the Chrome team have been beating the drum on this for ages - large web content excludes huge chunks of the world from being able to use stuff, no matter what toolchain it's built with. All these huge frameworks and ad networks and in-page video ads eat up so much bandwidth...

[ralph87]

The average web page can be as nasty as it likes, but if I can deliver apps that _feel_ awesome and optionally can deliver metrics that provide a commercial basis for that awesomeness to whoever is paying me, I don't really care much about the average web page at all. Insert some truism here about using the incompetence of others to justify one's own slovenly behaviour, and some other truism about standing out from the crowd by applying common sense.

"I built an average web application and it attracted an average number of users, it more or less worked if you visited it from mobile" would look fucking awful on anyone's resume.