Page Weight Matters (2012)
If you have an engineering mind and care about such things - you care about complexity.  Even if you don't - user experience matters to everyone.Have you ever seen something completely insane and everyone around doesn't seem to recognize how awful it really is.  That is the web of today.  60-80 requests?  1MB+ single pages?Your functionality, I don't care if its Facebook - does not need that much.  It is not necessary.  When broadband came on the scene, everyone started to ignore it, just like GBs of memory made people forget about conservation.The fact that there isn't a daily drumbeat about how bloated, how needlessly complex, how ridicuous most of the world's web appliactions of today really are - baffles me.