> All we need to make 5G critical is for webpages to start being 500+ MB for basic text
I see you've never used GitHub before.
I just measured 1.36 MB total transfer for a full reload on GitHub.com. Five avatars were cached in memory; their total size was under 1 MB.
I'm using Safari 14.0. Do you have any measurements (maybe on another browser) that show GitHub serving particularly large pages?
It was just a cheap dig, but try combining this page https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/2907 with this extension https://github.com/findepi/user.js/blob/master/github-expand... to expand all of the missing comments. You'll get a lot of xfer for what is effectively just some plaintext.
A good chunk of the data transferred in that issue for me are images, not plaintext. Lots of screenshots of the videogame.
The original iPhone was 2.5G and could load webpages just fine. But when a modern iPhone only has a 2.5G connection, itβs useless. All we need to make 5G critical is for webpages to start being 500+ MB for basic text plus all the associated ads, trackers, and other important features.