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Loading this article involves my browser making 141 separate requests, downloading a total of 6.9mb of data. Based on the numbers given the article, that's more than eight hours worth of tennis scores.

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He he, that is true, and not something we're proud of. We're continuing to optimize things where we can with the resources we have. Given our size, we are spending our engineering efforts on our product where we can bring our optimization work on streaming to our customers. Sadly, as a result, our blog has plenty of room for improvement. As we grow, I hope the existing optimization tasks in our backlog are prioritized.

I appreciate this may come across as hypocritical, and you're more than welcome to think that. But I don't think that changes the analysis of my article, being that Google are telling everyone else to optimize their sites because it makes a better web, or you'll be penalized (https://www.sitecenter.com/insights/141-google-introduces-pe...), and then on the other hand they have over 100k staff and haven't optimized their own results.

68KiB (worst case) per 5 minutes kinda makes it sound like Google did optimize their site. They could optimize it further still, certainly, but there doesn't seem to be any real hypocrisy here as you are claiming. The absolute number here is still very firmly in the "very small" category.

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