The average size of Web pages is now the average size of a Doom install
The Doom install image was 35x the size of the Apollo guidance computer.<p>Thirty-five times! Apollo software got us to the moon. Doom wasted millions of man-hours on a video game.<p>My point of course is that these comparisons are not actually that illuminating.<p>Are web pages much heavier than they need to be? Yes. This presentation very capably talks about that problem:<p><a href="http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm" rel="nofollow">http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm</a><p>Does comparing web pages to Doom help understand or improve the situation? No, not any more than comparing Doom to Apollo memory size helps us understand the difference between a video game and a history-altering exploration.