Comment by frereubu

I worked on bbc.co.uk back in the early days (late 90s), and the homepage of each site had to be under 70k, including images, or the operations people wouldn't make it live. I think we can afford a bit more now, but I miss that discipline. When building sites now I'm still focused on page weight - only vanillla JS, hand-coded HTML - but given what clients request in terms of design I'm lucky if I can get homepage weight below 500k (desktop) these days.