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Only 4KB!

• dreen 13y ago
  It made me look - the front page of HN is currently 7.8KB, and this is: - 1.6% of yahoo.com size (477KB) - 18.9% of reddit.com size (41.2 KB) - 23.6% of stackoverflow.com size (33KB) and - 108.3% of gmail.com size (7.2KB) - 520% of google.com size (1.5KB) - 866.6% of your blog post size (908B) so this gives some perspective. edit: the most surprising is gmail.com for me, id have thought they load tons of js in the background. but maybe so does hn?
  • monkeyspaw 13y ago
    How did you do these measurements? I would be shocked if the entire gmail webapp is 7.2KB. Just looking at the Network tab in Chrome's inspector, I see a lot more than 7KB being transferred. It seems the main page on gmail is just loading the other j.s. files.
    • dreen 13y ago
      Same as you, even on disabled cache its about the same, thats why I was surprised. edit: OK so in Incognito Mode i got 17KB which is a bit more believable, but why doesnt it show that in normal mode with disabled cache?
      • monkeyspaw 13y ago
        When I use incognito mode, I see about 200k of Javascript. I wonder why we're getting different sizes. The largest file I see is the ?shva=1 /mail/u/0 file, clocking in at 173KB.
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