The DigitalOcean Blog homepage loads 100 MB of resources

On first load it displays around 2KB worth of information, transferring 40MB.

Had they served me a static image containing everything I see, it would've come to around 300KB.

Maybe they should consider serving a page-sized video stream of their site to conserve bandwidth. Spin up a VM for each visitor on their server.

So if I pay $80 per month for my 1.25 TB capped internet service, this page costs me ~0.6 cents to view assuming I use the full 1.25 TB.

While looking for the blog’s RSS feed (sadly it doesn’t appear to have one anymore), I noticed that the size of the HTML alone was nearly 5 MB uncompressed. Over the course of scrolling to the bottom of the page, it loads tons of 4+ MB JSON files. The unscaled author images and numerous tracking scripts also contribute to the enormous payload. I don’t know enough about Next.js internals to say what went wrong here, but that seems ridiculous for a simple blog.

This is amazingly fast.

If I needed to download an app file, 100mb would take minutes.

(not defending a 100mb homepage, but still)