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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by bb85 on Friday April 22, 2016 @11:53AM (#11550079)
> The top ten sites are significantly lighter than the rest (worth noting if you want to be a top website)

Isn't that that the top websites have a lot more ressources available to improve asset management, cleanup and refactor?

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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by tyingq on Friday April 22, 2016 @12:12PM (#11550231)
This set of benchmarks is often helpful:

http://www.dynatrace.com/en/benchmarks/united-states/

Particularly the "last mile" or "Chrome Homepage" tabs.

They cover the top websites, grouped into categories like "Retail", "Travel", "Media", etc.

The disparity across competitors is pretty stunning, with some websites getting close to 1 second to download/render a page, and others taking 6, 7, 8 , even 10 seconds. And these are all big, well known, companies.

And, for the most part, it all correlates very well to total page weight, and total number of artifacts on the page (js/css/images/etc). There are some exceptions, but it's a pretty strong correlation.

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