Comment by gmuslera
17 hours ago
The main thing I remember from an usability book by Jakob Nielsen is that web pages should fit in 50kb, including all elements. Managing to do this in only 2x that size today, considering that his book was from 1999, may be considered a merit.
To put this into another context, today there was a post about Slack's 404 page weighting 50Mb.
There used to be a contest to fit a good web page into 5kB [0]. Seems it stopped running in 2002, to be replaced by a 10kB contest.
Evidently, the entire concept of size & communications efficiency has been abandoned
[0] https://www.the5k.org/about.php
> There used to be a contest to fit a good web page into 5kB ...
In accordance with this philosophy, I worked on a project a couple years ago where the HTML home page uncompressed size was intentionally limited to 4k. The idea being a slow network connection (such as a mobile device using a limited cellular connection) would be able to render quickly and remaining content could load asynchronously.
I wish everyone would do the same!