In July 2015, inspired by something Mat Marquis said at TXJS 2015, I suggested that the average web page weight would equal that of the Doom install image in about 7 months time. In about 7 months average web page size will be same as Doom install image. Well done us! Onwards & upwards! pic.twitter.com/xtSAtZjPGl
Web bloat isn’t a knowledge problem | Christian Heilmann
There is a consensus among all browser makers and lovers of the web: the current state of the web is a mess. The average web page is 2.4 megabyte big and has over 200 requests.
The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers
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Funding The Web: A Wise Choice
The Web is slow-motion collapsing for multiple reasons, but at the heart of it all is a little known system: the Search/Browser Levy. Let's fix it!
Andreas Kling on Twitter / X
Approximate browser engine team sizes:- Chromium: 1000- WebKit: 100- Ladybird: 10I don't have a point to make, just fascinated by the massive difference in scale.— Andreas Kling (@awesomekling) January 9, 2025
It's time to rebuild the web
The web was never supposed to be a few walled gardens of concentrated content owned by a few major publishers; it was supposed to be a cacophony of different sites and voices.
The State of the Web at Google I/O 2018
The web is a global treasure, and has many strengths we all enjoy. It is a distribution platform like no other, providing people around the ...
The 49MB Web Page
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.
Motherfucking Website
You probably build websites and think your shit is special. You think your 13 megabyte parallax-ative home page is going to get you some fucking Awwward banner you can glue to the top corner of your site. You think your 40-pound jQuery file and 83 polyfills give IE7 a boner because it finally has box-shadow. Wrong, motherfucker. Let me describe your perfect-ass website:
How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...
How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...
Perplexity AI's Comet browser will streak across the web this month
Is this comet an omen of doom for Chrome?
The Missing Building Blocks of the Web
At a time when millions are losing trust in the the web’s biggest sites, it’s worth revisiting the idea that the web was supposed to be…
My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet
Slowly but surely, huge swaths of the internet are vanishing. But the artefacts of the early web are still out there, and they have lessons for the future.
Google+ | web.dev
We hit our goal of never downloading more than 60k of HTML, 60k of JavaScript and 60k of CSS at any one time!
How long does a web page live 🤔 >5yrs ago I asked the internet, and made some new friends: x.com/dietrich/status/1135778377766… After a multi-year research collab with @archive.org, ODU and Filecoin Fdn... (largest study like this ever done) ... we have results! tldr: It's bad. fil.org/blog/the-web-isn-t-forever-ne…
