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A comment on Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches. Parent comment

Re:Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some user... by turtlebits on Thursday August 12, 2021 @12:55PM (#28158674)
Twitter's chirp webfont is almost 100k. On optimized sites, that can easily be larger then all of the HTML/CSS combined.
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Re:Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some user... by TheRealPomax on Thursday August 12, 2021 @03:07PM (#28160188)
But tens to even hundreds of times smaller than any single tweet that has an image in it, so not really a useful metric.
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Re:Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some user... by turtlebits on Thursday August 12, 2021 @04:39PM (#28161139)
That attitude is why web pages have gotten so bloated.

https://twitter.com/Twitter is 1.6mb. (200k+ of fonts, 500k+ of JS)

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Re:Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some user... by TheRealPomax on Thursday August 19, 2021 @12:13PM (#28235668)
And heaven forbid browser caches frequently used sites, which would make that complaint an equally meaningless metric.
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Re:Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some user... by turtlebits on Thursday August 12, 2021 @05:37PM (#28161842)
Actually webbloatscore.com says 2,062 kB and 88 requests.
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