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The simple answer is you have to work within the constraints you're confined in. I used to work for an ecommerce company, a very early Amazon competitor, and b

The simple answer is you have to work within the constraints you're confined in. I used to work for an ecommerce company, a very early Amazon competitor, and because the Internet was so slow in the early years, we had a rule that our homepage had to be less than 100k, including image icons. Every 1k squeezed was a success and celebrated. Even today Amazon's homepage is less than 1MB, go ahead and check. Now with CSS frameworks, JS frameworks, ad frameworks and cross-linking, pages take forever to load with even less actual content.

adventured 5y ago
> Even today Amazon's homepage is less than 1MB, go ahead and check. Pingdom reports 4.8mb (3.3mb of images), 661ms to load, and 298 requests. GT Metrix reports 2.65mb (2mb of images), and 307 requests. An incognito window with Firefox on my system says ~3mb and ~265 requests. Just the top six or seven media assets combined that loaded initially weigh in at about 1mb. Certainly not the worst page ever, granted.
- bellyfullofbac 5y ago
  Nitpick: MB = Megabyte. Mb = Megabit. mb = millibit?
  - pvillano 5y ago
    Related, in my opinion binary prefixes are better, e.g. MiB > MB (ha)
crate_barre 5y ago
Hit the nail on the head. Constraints fuel creativity and innovation. If I give you everything, then what do you have left to do? It’s like the General that wins every battle because he has the most elite soldiers. Could the General win with a rag tag shoddy group of soldiers?
- cerved 5y ago
  Like the Köln concert! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_K%C3%B6ln_Concert https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_K%C3%B6ln_Concert
majani 5y ago
Yup. I am currently developing a game for African players and I have to build my own engine and do old school tricks to get the game under 1MB on a website. CSS sprites and all
- pvillano 5y ago
  I was just thinking about some console game that launched with a 60GB day one patch, and how disappointing it must have been for players without good internet to put in the disc and not be able to play or missing half the content.

adventured 5y ago

> Even today Amazon's homepage is less than 1MB, go ahead and check. Pingdom reports 4.8mb (3.3mb of images), 661ms to load, and 298 requests. GT Metrix reports 2.65mb (2mb of images), and 307 requests. An incognito window with Firefox on my system says ~3mb and ~265 requests. Just the top six or seven media assets combined that loaded initially weigh in at about 1mb. Certainly not the worst page ever, granted.

bellyfullofbac 5y ago
Nitpick: MB = Megabyte. Mb = Megabit. mb = millibit?
- pvillano 5y ago
  Related, in my opinion binary prefixes are better, e.g. MiB > MB (ha)

crate_barre 5y ago

Hit the nail on the head. Constraints fuel creativity and innovation. If I give you everything, then what do you have left to do? It’s like the General that wins every battle because he has the most elite soldiers. Could the General win with a rag tag shoddy group of soldiers?

cerved 5y ago
Like the Köln concert! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_K%C3%B6ln_Concert https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_K%C3%B6ln_Concert

majani 5y ago

Yup. I am currently developing a game for African players and I have to build my own engine and do old school tricks to get the game under 1MB on a website. CSS sprites and all

pvillano 5y ago
I was just thinking about some console game that launched with a 60GB day one patch, and how disappointing it must have been for players without good internet to put in the disc and not be able to play or missing half the content.