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To be fair, Google for years have been perfect examples of developers that can't optimize to save their life. Virtually every other site is faster than any of their sites.

It's 6MB (closer to 7 if you round it).

https://twitter.com/mikemaccana/status/1073538289582436352

did you just compare a bundle size with the modem bandwidth?

Not the JS bundle (if that's what you mean), the site itself (to get to the point where you can use gmail).

And yes, why wouldn't I? My 50Mb/s cable modem can download the fully featured Fastmail (500K) 13x faster than GMail. That's how bandwidth works.

The odds are pretty high. A bunch of google "apps" are pretty inefficient. Like every company, Google has a spectrum of good, ok and bad programmers. It seems like they are working hard on making gmail slower every release.

That's why they added the splash animation. Which also has to be downloaded.

I have been using the html only version of GMail for months. For my user case is much faster than the last webapp implementation.

It's kind of sad because it was the only webapp that made sense to me.