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2026-03-15 16:06 UTC
See also [The Website Obesity Crisis.](https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm)
> Here’s an article on GigaOm from 2012 titled "The Growing Epidemic of Page Bloat". It warns that the average web page is over a megabyte in size.
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> The article itself is 1.8 megabytes long.
> The problem with picking any particular size as a threshold is that it encourages us to define deviancy down. Today’s egregiously bloated site becomes tomorrow’s typical page, and next year’s elegantly slim design.
The author links their tweet saying "your website should not exceed in file size the major works of Russian literature." At the time, that page on Twitter was 900 KB. Today it is 11 MB.
The reason is right there in the slides:
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