I love the "ackshually..." replies. The point of the exercise is to get a marginally useful web page to fit in 1kB. A landing page that fits into 1kB is pretty

I love the "ackshually..." replies. The point of the exercise is to get a marginally useful web page to fit in 1kB. A landing page that fits into 1kB is pretty impressive. You could fit even more e.g. some bare minimum CSS, into 1kB with compression. The whole point of the 1MB club and other such efforts are to show what can be done without the equivalent of multiple copies of Doom[0] worth of JavaScript to display what is just a static landing page. There are completely legitimate uses for "web apps", things that are actual useful applications that happen to be built in a browser. No one is saying that web apps aren't a totally valid means of delivering software. The problem is every website written using the same frameworks Facebook and Google use for their web apps to build sites that could easily just be some static HTML[1]. We have devices in our pockets that would have been considered super computers a few decades ago. I have more RAM on my phone than I had hard drive storage on my first PC. My cellular connection is orders or magnitude faster with orders of magnitude better latency than my first dial-up Internet connection. Despite those things the average web pages loads slow as shit on my phone or laptop. They're making dozens to hundreds of requests, loading unnecessarily huge images, tons of JavaScript, autoplay videos, and troves of advertising scripts that only waste power and bandwidth. I find the web almost unusable without an ad blocker and even then I still find it ridiculous how poorly most sites perform. I love waiting at a blank page while it tries to load a pointless custom font or refuses to draw if there's heavy load on some third party API server. I also absolutely adore trying to use some bloated page when I'm on shitty 4G in between some buildings or on the outskirts of town. It would be nice if I didn't need the latest and greatest phone or laptop to browse the web. It would be nice if web pages rediscovered progressive enhancement. Add JavaScript to improve some default useful version of a page. You don't need to load some HTML skeleton that only loads a bunch of JavaScript just to load a JSON document that contains the actual content of a page. [0] https://www.wired.com/2016/04/average-webpage-now-size-original-doom/ https://www.wired.com/2016/04/average-webpage-now-size-origi... [1] https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm