Modern web developer: That must be a typo, pretty sure they meant 14GB. If it loads slow, it's the infrastructure team's fault for having a poor caching strategy.
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2025
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576 bytes or less and it can be shipped in only one internet package!
I looked at the size of our own site and it was stupidly large. Turns out they had two images in a preload rotation banner that hadn’t been optimized and were still something like 40000x10000. They came from the marketing team and no one on the development team stopped to ask why they were so big. It was the infrastructure team that caught it.
The Website Obesity Crisis is sadly evergreen.
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.
I just checked a random Mastodon post with no image in it but plenty of comments, one of which has an image attached. 38 KB. This thread loaded in PieFed is 12 KB. A random article at @404media@flipboard.com is 49 KB.
The internet at large is pretty fucked, but I'm pretty sure most of the sites I actually use haven't been this small in almost two decades.