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Would this really change page sizes significantly?

Take amazon landing as an example:

* HTML/CSS: 80 KB and 88 KB

* Images: 3.2 MB

* Font: 180 KB

* JavaScript: 260 KB

Reducing HTML/CSS to 1 Byte each, would make nearly no difference, because huge parts of pages are in images.

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This wouldn't help Amazon as much because they are obsessive about performance. An out-of-the-box wordpress site loads MB's for anything basic as do most of the top-visited sites on the web.

In the developing world they are using the Internet at dial-up speed, only on mobile, and often charged per KB.

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