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volemoyesterday at 5:46 PM1 replyview on HN

Is Google homepage consisting of a text input field and like ten buttons really over a megabyte? Damn.


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mlyleyesterday at 8:15 PM

I end up transferring 940kB (with a lot of blocking cranked up). Typing "hello" in the search bar takes it up to 1MB. Then the first page of search results is another 1.3MB.

Now, I assume all of this would start working before it's all transferred. But we're still talking about tens of seconds of transfer at 500kbit/sec.

(And Google at least acts like they care about bandwidth a little. So many 15megabyte pages out there...)