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by robtaylor 1012 days ago
A 22.5meg .png image on that page. How?
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> A 22.5meg .png image on that page. How?

The page in total is like 36 MB: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/newsroom.tiktok.com/ZezM7two/

I don't think I've ever seen a page that large, outside of streaming videos and such. What an interesting time, especially because this could have been avoided by downscaling two images to fit the actual plausible display sizes.

A 11208 × 7072 picture ! There another one of similar size (but of "only" 10+ MB)
I was on a site owned by Lyft the other day and I couldn't understand why the page was taking so long to load, I thought my connection was fried. Then I looked at the size of the images. All the images are 20MB+ each, even the thumbnails:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230602185543/https://divvybike...