'unnecessary' file size. K matter on the web still.
I'm not normally a web guy, but from https://sqlite.org/download.html it looks like it's ~800k extra added to initial page load? Based on average mobile speed in US of 97.09Mbps; that's an extra half second added to initial page load. That's not trivial; maybe an extra 15% bounce rate on initial hits.
How things change.
Unless you had a 3KHz processor (and no processor ever had that), that statement is just not true.
If you're serving it uncompressed, which no production-grade site will (for a given definition of "no"/"none").
> K matter on the web still.
Not, i opine, for the types of apps which want to host client-side databases. These are client-side applications, not "web pages."
Even a bare-bones, database-less google.com is now 3.14mb uncompressed (1.32 compressed), and that's not counting the pieces which uBlock Origin keep from loading. It loads somewhere around 2MB (uncompressed) of JS.
Last i checked, gdrive downloaded some 14mb to get up and running.
> that's an extra half second added to initial page load. That's not trivial;
We'll have to agree to disagree on whether half a second extra initial-hit-only load time is trivial.
That 847 KB is actually the size of the (compressed) zip file, but it does contain other files. The compressed WASM + the JS to load it is probably about 500K, depending on the specifics of compression & minification.