Genuinely curious, why does the page make 20+ requests for ~1.5Mb of non-content for a site that quite literally exists to showcase small websites? Oversight?

“Tiny Awards is a small prize awarded by an equally-small selection committee of online makers to the website which we feel best embodies the idea of a small, playful and heartfelt web.”

I think they use another definition of "small" than most of tech-oriented folks here at HN. They don't seem to be interested in filesizes, number of requests, or even usability. They used a WYSIWG builder (see their advertisement somewhere else in this thread), which is responsible for all of the bloat. It looked good on their (fruity?) devices, and they went with it. It doesn't look like anyone with a technical sensibility was ever involved.

In another comment the author wrote that the page is built with a WYSIWYG editor. Those tend to come with a lot of bloat and home-made tracking...

I’m sure this is in jest, but it truly is baffling that this purely informational webpage is so massive.

I believe the “small” web is more than being an independent entity and instead also should avoid wasted resources. Developers need to respect their end users’ bandwidth and time. Just my two cents.

Ironically “just my two cents” is a waste of both bandwidth and time.

* breathes *

* grunts *

* breathes *

Gotta do something with the bandwidth you saved on JS bloat

It's not baffling at all, they are using a WYSIWIG CMS that adds a lot of JS.

I guess this is one way to take in criticism. The fact remains that this page delivers around ~3kB of actual data out of 1.9MB (~682kB compressed).

This is 0.001% (0.004%) of meaningful data, surrounded by bells, whistles and tracking cookies.

"No, it's the children who are wrong."