[lukan]

I question it, because I live somewhere rural with bad connection and travel frequently around europe, where I often experience bad connection outside of cities, so I do value lightweight pages like the article authors propose as a metric. Heavy weight pages I don't even bother trying to load in some areas.

"Show me a real world example of a single payload 500kB taking seconds longer than 13kB. It's not realistic."

And my only comment towards this is, please go out to see for yourself.

Also maybe take into account, the bloated website is not the only thing using the device connection. Messager messages syncing in the background, ..