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tombertyesterday at 6:20 PM4 repliesview on HN

I was actually a bit curious how much HN uses, since it's probably the lightest site that I frequent.

According to Brave's dev tools, looks like just shy of about 90kb on this comment page as of the time of this writing.

Obviously some of that is going to be CSS rules, a small amount of JS (I think for the upvotes and the comment-collapse), but I don't think anyone here called HN "bloated". Even that one page wouldn't fit on Voyager.


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basilikumyesterday at 8:04 PM

  curl https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564421#47564679 | wc -c
143927

  curl https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564421#47564679 | pup -p --charset utf8 'text{}' | wc -c
30954
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rkagereryesterday at 6:33 PM

There is more information in a typical, single page of comments here than there is on the average webpage. And I'd say a far higher signal to noise ratio (though depending on the topic discussed some will disagree).

ksymphyesterday at 8:46 PM

This page is only ~30kb. I wonder where the extra ~60kb you're seeing is coming from?

reaperduceryesterday at 6:40 PM

I was actually a bit curious how much HN uses, since it's probably the lightest site that I frequent.

I use an iPhone 5 as an iPod. HN is one of the few web sites that still works with iOS 10.

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