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by lucianp 3975 days ago
> Take the Google homepage. It’s a one liner text field and two buttons. It weighs in at a whopping 1170 kilobytes! That’s more than a megabyte for what technically should not take more than a few hundred bytes.

The Google homepage does a lot more than that. Since it is one of the most important pages for Google, I think that the engineers over there know what they are doing. I don't think it is a good example of bloat.

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Coldtea pointed that out as well, I've changed the article to reflect this. Thank you!