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  • detritus0

    I'm getting old.

    Web People - how big should a webpage be these days?

    I've just checked a client's site and it weighs over 6Mb.. on mobile.

    It's based on Squarespace and I can't get my head around the fact that the class definitions for the body tag ALONE weighs 7Kb. That's just the contents of the Body's Class tag. Not exactly well-built... .

    I'm currently re-doing my own website and have been going through a side project's site recently, shaving off hundreds of KB of cruft from here and there.

    At what pageweight do things start getting ridiculous these days?

    (When I first started doing this shit, if you started poking over 100Kb, for the entire site, things were getting weighty.. this was the [late] days of dial-up, mind).

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