Re:Why Thomas Cook Collapsed
by perl4ever on Thursday September 26, 2019 @06:51PM
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That page appears to be about 100K, so I think it would probably have taken at least 15-20 seconds to load on dial-up? Probably back in the day you would have been swearing at how bloated it was.
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I worked for a newspaper around the period this article was published (~2000) and we had a strict 120kb limit per page, aiming more for ~90kb, for the exact reasons you suggest.
And we can now measure webpages in Doooms (JFYI):