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The linked landing page is nearly 40MB. What's the deal? http://i.imgur.com/70wES9O.png http://i.imgur.com/70wES9O.png On a 56K modem that would take 1.5 hou

• yread 10y ago
  How long would it take over 1200 baud modem? Who cares? It's a page about a camera app it probably needs to have images. And it creates animations so it's useful to include samples of that, right? I like to moan about website sizes as well but here it's sort of justified.
  • SquareWheel 10y ago
    >It's a page about a camera app it probably needs to have images. See http://www.bing.com http://www.bing.com as a counter example. They load in a beautiful animated background, far larger and higher resolution than any image on the Pix site. Total page size? 364KB. Yes, it's over 100 times smaller. You can still have images and animations without it using absurd amounts of data. This is just sloppy optimization, especially for a mobile app where data usage is most important.
    • jimboj 10y ago
      Really? I can only see a heavily compressed jpg that uses 345kb, the page has nothing else on it. High compression is probably a bad idea if you're trying to show off the superior quality of your photos and videos.
• yitchelle 10y ago
  How many are still using a 56K modem? serious question.
  • rosege 10y ago
    if you work in a remote site and use vsat you could have a similar connection speed
  • SquareWheel 10y ago
    Probably not many, but it's a useful metric for showing just how far page bloat has gone in the last 10 years. The average internet speed in India is 2.5mb/s, which is still 128 seconds. Just to download a webpage that's pretty extreme.