Page Weight Matters
While I appreciate (and agree with) the overall theme (Make your pages light, so people on At two minutes, there are people out there with 6.6 kilobit links connecting to youtube?I suspect there might be a bit of hyperbole in this article as well, because, even if there were people connecting on ultra slow links, the average latency of those connections is likely to be be wiped out by the tens of millions of broadband links.