It's modestly fast for how bloated it is, I'll grant them that. From Pingdom's Washington DC test location, on this Axios page: https://www.axios.com/tropical

It's modestly fast for how bloated it is, I'll grant them that. From Pingdom's Washington DC test location, on this Axios page: https://www.axios.com/tropical-storm-sally-forms-off-florida-coast-ab1e97df-99bf-4e21-93a8-b3f0bccda493.html https://www.axios.com/tropical-storm-sally-forms-off-florida... It rings in at 414ms, 1.9mb uncompressed (~1mb compressed), with a rather obnoxious 90 requests. They're loading 961kb of script and 197kb of font content. A whole 41kb of actual HTML content in that obese vat of bytes. On a small Quora page with no major images, they come in at 2mb of junk, 1500ms to load, with 79 requests. A typical small Wikipedia page with one image will come in at 400kb-500kb and load in 400-500ms, with 26 requests. GTMetrix lists the average load page size for their performance tests, compressed (!), at 3mb (with 89 requests). Framework bloat is like living on a sugar diet.