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Re:This is a web page by dreen on Thursday June 20, 2013 @02:15PM (#5913791)

It made me look - the front page of HN is currently 7.8KB, and this is:

    - 1.6% of yahoo.com size (477KB)
    - 18.9% of reddit.com size (41.2 KB)
    - 23.6% of stackoverflow.com size (33KB)

and

    - 108.3% of gmail.com size (7.2KB)
    - 520% of google.com size (1.5KB)
    - 866.6% of your blog post size (908B)

so this gives some perspective.

edit: the most surprising is gmail.com for me, id have thought they load tons of js in the background. but maybe so does hn?

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Re:This is a web page by monkeyspaw on Thursday June 20, 2013 @02:30PM (#5913907)

How did you do these measurements? I would be shocked if the entire gmail webapp is 7.2KB.

Just looking at the Network tab in Chrome's inspector, I see a lot more than 7KB being transferred. It seems the main page on gmail is just loading the other j.s. files.

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Re:This is a web page by dreen on Thursday June 20, 2013 @03:36PM (#5914381)

Same as you, even on disabled cache its about the same, thats why I was surprised.

edit: OK so in Incognito Mode i got 17KB which is a bit more believable, but why doesnt it show that in normal mode with disabled cache?

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Re:This is a web page by monkeyspaw on Thursday June 20, 2013 @03:47PM (#5914446)

When I use incognito mode, I see about 200k of Javascript. I wonder why we're getting different sizes.

The largest file I see is the ?shva=1 /mail/u/0 file, clocking in at 173KB.

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