[m90]

Stylistic nitpick: don't use the word cancerous for things that don't make too much of a difference for anything but your "ethos". Real cancer has people die (animals too). Bloated websites might be annoying, but you will survive them even if your the 1337est hacker around.

[yellowapple]

I can definitely imagine situations where being able to load a page quickly is indeed a matter of life or death. This is indeed part of the design rationale for the min css framework: https://mincss.com/index.html

> Min is used by over 65,000 people in 195+ countries, from North Korea to South Sudan to Mongolia to Somalia. Think your software is critical? Try a webapp keeping you alive in a warzone.

Now, whether or not this actually happens is a good question, but it does seem like a plausible possibility.

[fctorial]

> I can definitely imagine situations where being able to load a page quickly is indeed a matter of life or death.

Can you share some such situations?

[yellowapple]

One example that comes to mind even here in the US would be getting emergency info out (evacuation orders, contact info, etc.) during natural disasters like wildfires and storms. A lot of rural areas are still stuck with dial-up and low-bandwidth cellular data at best, so every kilobyte matters. This also applies even in places with abundant cellular coverage; congestion can and often does cause issues with thousands or millions of people trying to get info or reach out to emergency contacts all at once.

Min's rationale further brings to mind things like disseminating info on hospitals, shelters, etc. in war zones, often to people who at most have an ancient (by first-world standards) phone with expensive and slow network connectivity.

[ajsnigrutin]

The problem with bloated website is, that the cumulative time lost while waiting for them to load is (for many) measured in many, many years. Pages like google/facebook/... optimizing load time by a couple of hundredths of a second, means years of real people time saved.

[m90]

I know it sucks waiting for a website to load, but it's not like your life depends on it. You can still be an overall happy person while doing so, time is not "lost".

Performance metrics are better when put into perspective.