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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by Aeolun on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @11:19PM (#24056957)
If you have any reasonably sized app you very quickly run up to 100s of KBs. Hell, just including moment.js to deal with timezones gets you there.
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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by strken on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @11:36PM (#24057041)
Yep, but that only takes you into the range of 100s of KBs. To get above 1 MB is possible, but at some point before you hit a 5 MB initial page load it becomes the fault of things other than the technology you're using.

EDIT: For reference, https://www.tmz.com/ with no ad blocker is 19.22 MB (7.51 compressed) and takes 19.99 seconds to load, and they only use jQuery. I don't think the underlying technology is the problem for them.

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