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From the graphs it looks like Websites size increases 4-fold every decade. So do screen resolutions, and when you include images and video in the website size

From the graphs it looks like Websites size increases 4-fold every decade. So do screen resolutions, and when you include images and video in the website size it seems reasonable they'll be getting bigger.

noxer 4y ago
>So do screen resolutions Maybe on phones but not on laptop. Resolutions went down after like 2009. I have a 14+ year old laptop with a WUXGA (1920x1200) screen. That is similar to FHD but 16:10 not 16:9 so its a bit higher that FHD (which is the standard today).
- onion2k 4y ago
  And now, a little more than a decade later, 4K and 5K monitors and laptops (2x pixel density at some sort of scaled display resolution in a lot of cases) are common. A new Macbook has a screen resolution of 3456x2234 native pixels, which is the same as CSS pixels if you're not using display scaling. That's very close to ~4 times as many pixels as your old FHD laptop. Web developers will often send 2x pixel density images to browsers, especially on mobile, if they've not put the time in to optimize what they're sending based on media queries or client hints.
  - noxer 4y ago
    The default for a laptop and even for a desktop monitor today is still 1920x1080. Yes the rage has been extended to way higher resolutions than 10 or 15 years ago but only the higher-end devices actually use them. If you go in an office building FHD screens are the norm maybe 2 of them. The average user who doesn't care about specs of his laptop and doesn't have a ifruit product as status symbol (or because hes trapped in the fruit ecosystem) will have a 1920x1080 screen laptop.
    - onion2k 4y ago
      It doesn't matter what the default is. When you make a website you need to make it work for everyone, including people at the edges. That means delivering something that works on a 'retina' display, which means using high resolution assets. Web devs should be building sites that deliver the best assets for the users device, but they often don't and just send the giant images and let the users browser scale them down to fit. Hence bigger websites.
      - noxer 4y ago
        No one was talking about web pages in this thread.
timbit42 4y ago
There is a limit to what the human eye can see. 8K is overkill when sitting across a room and may not even be justifiable sitting 2 feet away with a screen size of less than 32 inches.

noxer 4y ago

>So do screen resolutions Maybe on phones but not on laptop. Resolutions went down after like 2009. I have a 14+ year old laptop with a WUXGA (1920x1200) screen. That is similar to FHD but 16:10 not 16:9 so its a bit higher that FHD (which is the standard today).

onion2k 4y ago
And now, a little more than a decade later, 4K and 5K monitors and laptops (2x pixel density at some sort of scaled display resolution in a lot of cases) are common. A new Macbook has a screen resolution of 3456x2234 native pixels, which is the same as CSS pixels if you're not using display scaling. That's very close to ~4 times as many pixels as your old FHD laptop. Web developers will often send 2x pixel density images to browsers, especially on mobile, if they've not put the time in to optimize what they're sending based on media queries or client hints.
- noxer 4y ago
  The default for a laptop and even for a desktop monitor today is still 1920x1080. Yes the rage has been extended to way higher resolutions than 10 or 15 years ago but only the higher-end devices actually use them. If you go in an office building FHD screens are the norm maybe 2 of them. The average user who doesn't care about specs of his laptop and doesn't have a ifruit product as status symbol (or because hes trapped in the fruit ecosystem) will have a 1920x1080 screen laptop.
  - onion2k 4y ago
    It doesn't matter what the default is. When you make a website you need to make it work for everyone, including people at the edges. That means delivering something that works on a 'retina' display, which means using high resolution assets. Web devs should be building sites that deliver the best assets for the users device, but they often don't and just send the giant images and let the users browser scale them down to fit. Hence bigger websites.
    - noxer 4y ago
      No one was talking about web pages in this thread.

timbit42 4y ago

There is a limit to what the human eye can see. 8K is overkill when sitting across a room and may not even be justifiable sitting 2 feet away with a screen size of less than 32 inches.