[2ndorderthought]

It's more or less an abomination. Dropping the frameworks and js jazz you could have most of the features of either of these sites served in the kb range. It would save millions of dollars in electricity, billions in infrastructure, and be more secure.

[gear54rus]

Yes, it's absolutely the frameworks. That each weigh <100KB. Definitely frameworks :D

Edit:

I don't even know where you lot get these numbers from nowadays, smh.

Just checked, in Slovakia, google.com is 1MB (compressed) total with cache disabled. 400kib of those is my own extension that I installed which is counted among the 'loaded scripts'. Loads in 400ms, blink of an eye.

Framework rants are completely detached from reality, as always.

[voidUpdate]

What else would it be? Google is a picture, a text box, and few buttons. Not exactly a lot of HTML

[philipallstar]

It's replying to this:

> 10MB for the Google Homepage!

[soraminazuki]

Even 1MB is way too big for "a picture, a text box, and few buttons."