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> All we need to make 5G critical is for webpages to start being 500+ MB for basic text I see you've never used GitHub before.

• snazz 6y ago
  I just measured 1.36 MB total transfer for a full reload on GitHub.com. Five avatars were cached in memory; their total size was under 1 MB. I'm using Safari 14.0. Do you have any measurements (maybe on another browser) that show GitHub serving particularly large pages?
  • coldpie 6y ago
    It was just a cheap dig, but try combining this page https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/2907 https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/2907 with this extension https://github.com/findepi/user.js/blob/master/github-expand-expand-expand.user.js https://github.com/findepi/user.js/blob/master/github-expand... to expand all of the missing comments. You'll get a lot of xfer for what is effectively just some plaintext.
    • snazz 6y ago
      Okay, that is a valid point. There's clearly a lot of unnecessary overhead with the expand button in issues.
    • vel0city 6y ago
      A good chunk of the data transferred in that issue for me are images, not plaintext. Lots of screenshots of the videogame.