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Comment by mmcconnell1618 | Hacker News Reader

10MB for the Google Homepage! 44MB for Facebook Homepage! I have not been paying attention to website bloat. Wow, and people were annoyed when a site had to download a whole JQuery library for a single function.

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It's more or less an abomination. Dropping the frameworks and js jazz you could have most of the features of either of these sites served in the kb range. It would save millions of dollars in electricity, billions in infrastructure, and be more secure.

Yes, it's absolutely the frameworks. That each weigh <100KB. Definitely frameworks :D

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I don't even know where you lot get these numbers from nowadays, smh.

Just checked, in Slovakia, google.com is 1MB (compressed) total with cache disabled. 400kib of those is my own extension that I installed which is counted among the 'loaded scripts'. Loads in 400ms, blink of an eye.

Framework rants are completely detached from reality, as always.

What else would it be? Google is a picture, a text box, and few buttons. Not exactly a lot of HTML

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> 10MB for the Google Homepage!

Even 1MB is way too big for "a picture, a text box, and few buttons."

Which Google homepage is 10MB?

I did a cache-cleared load of www.google.com just now and didn't get anything close to that.

I thought it had always been pretty lean - I remember someone telling me that when Google launched, its homepage was borderline broken HTML to save on bytes.

I wonder where the 10MB came from, I checked on my browser and it's only loading about 1.5MB with cache disabled.

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