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> For nowadays standards I consider anything below 500kB and with less than 6 server requests already pretty minimal, yet those are still numbers that can achie
by iLoveOncall 4y ago
> For nowadays standards I consider anything below 500kB and with less than 6 server requests already pretty minimal, yet those are still numbers that can achieve a lot of things and still look so "modern"/"normal" that you'd have to look into the dev console to really appreciate the effort that has been put into these
500kB honestly doesn't require much effort at all. My WordPress blog with a popular theme and a few plugins has each almost every article below 500kB, despite looking like any modern blog and having at least 1 image per post.
Actually, if I remove the Facebook share button, they drop to almost 250kB. Time to remove it I guess.
- nlitened 4y agoHonest question—do actual real people use Facebook share buttons? Have they ever? To me it looks like it has always been a fairytale made up by Facebook to spread their analytics scripts all over internet.
- Wistar 4y agoCoincidentally, I used the fb share button this morning but it is a very rare occurrence.
- iLoveOncall 4y agoI don't know, my blog is small, but I don't think so. Especially since it's a blog about programming I'm sure it's not the kind of stuff you'll share on Facebook... I removed it today after seeing the impact on page size. I guess it works for some niches like news, online quizz, etc.
- hammyhavoc 4y agoSure they do, but do a meaningful number of people use it for niche geek blogs? No. Major news sites? Sure.
- sincarne 4y agoYou could replace it with something more vanilla. I used to maintain a list of common share URLs, but this project is more more useful: https://github.com/bradvin/social-share-urls https://github.com/bradvin/social-share-urls