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The entire frontpage was just 468KB, 91KB compressed, and most of that was the search index. Very neat!

by RandomBK 2y ago

deadbabe 2y ago
Sad that 91kb is considered small.
- LoganDark 2y ago
  Most websites are like 50mb, my dude.
  - genewitch 2y ago
    Still nearly a half million characters, though. That's 1:40 on dialup. Not 50MB, that's not lightweight, which this thread is about.
    - LoganDark 2y ago
      > Not 50MB, that's not lightweight, which this thread is about. I'm not sure what you're meaning to say to this but my point was that 50MB is absolutely humongous and so many websites are around that order of magnitude. 91kb is a lot smaller than it could be, even though it's not exactly absolutely small.
  - Cthulhu_ 2y ago
    Incorrect, most are ~2.5 MB; granted, the size has steadily increased over the years. But 50 MB sites are an exception. https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/page-weight https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/page-weight
- bigiain 2y ago
  Heh. I, for reasons nobody will wonder too hard about, have a downloads folder here with a few hundred Kindlebooks in .azw3 format. While non of them is quite as small as 91kb, many of then are around that 468kb size. And they're whole goddamned novels that some talented author probably spend a whole year writing, not just single "small" webpages. The modern web is insane.
- maverwa 2y ago
  ~10kb of that are for the client side search library ("lunr") and 50.7kb for that searchs index. So around 2/3 of the whole first load size are "just" for the local search feature. The remaining 30kb split up in ~7kb of additional javascript, 16kb of stylesheets, and 7kb of html (content, markup, inline styles & scripts). I am surprised by the amount of CSS, 109kb uncompressed but minified is a lot of styles for a rather simple design, but I guess its the "just-the-docs" standard and thus somewhat verbose by being generic.
- culi 2y ago
  https://1kb.club/ https://1kb.club/ Edit: Also, https://10kb.club/ https://10kb.club/
  - seanicus 2y ago
    Never heard of this.... incredible. Thanks to you and the brave makers of websites that just load.

The entire frontpage was just 468KB, 91KB compressed, and most of that was the search index. Very neat!

deadbabe 2y ago

Sad that 91kb is considered small.

LoganDark 2y ago
Most websites are like 50mb, my dude.
- genewitch 2y ago
  Still nearly a half million characters, though. That's 1:40 on dialup. Not 50MB, that's not lightweight, which this thread is about.
  - LoganDark 2y ago
    > Not 50MB, that's not lightweight, which this thread is about. I'm not sure what you're meaning to say to this but my point was that 50MB is absolutely humongous and so many websites are around that order of magnitude. 91kb is a lot smaller than it could be, even though it's not exactly absolutely small.
- Cthulhu_ 2y ago
  Incorrect, most are ~2.5 MB; granted, the size has steadily increased over the years. But 50 MB sites are an exception. https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/page-weight https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/page-weight
bigiain 2y ago
Heh. I, for reasons nobody will wonder too hard about, have a downloads folder here with a few hundred Kindlebooks in .azw3 format. While non of them is quite as small as 91kb, many of then are around that 468kb size. And they're whole goddamned novels that some talented author probably spend a whole year writing, not just single "small" webpages. The modern web is insane.
maverwa 2y ago
~10kb of that are for the client side search library ("lunr") and 50.7kb for that searchs index. So around 2/3 of the whole first load size are "just" for the local search feature. The remaining 30kb split up in ~7kb of additional javascript, 16kb of stylesheets, and 7kb of html (content, markup, inline styles & scripts). I am surprised by the amount of CSS, 109kb uncompressed but minified is a lot of styles for a rather simple design, but I guess its the "just-the-docs" standard and thus somewhat verbose by being generic.
culi 2y ago
https://1kb.club/ https://1kb.club/ Edit: Also, https://10kb.club/ https://10kb.club/
- seanicus 2y ago
  Never heard of this.... incredible. Thanks to you and the brave makers of websites that just load.