So tell me: Out of a 2 MB website with 300 HTTP requests, what do you usually get as a visitor?<p>You make it sound as if the natural growth in technology is what makes these websites huge. I run a web app, which is uptodate technology-wise. It has a responsive design with @2x images and @3x. It uses JS in a sensible manner. It&#x27;s fast and easy to use. Top notch technology. Yet, the average request sums up to 200KB. And 60KB of that is a custom font.<p>This is not about the natural growth in technology, it is about 50-70% of the 2MB are entirely worthless to the user, because they are usually Ads, trackers, wrongly compressed images (ImageOptim does wonders here) and using 10 JS frameworks in parallel.<p>It&#x27;s almost as if you&#x27;re saying: <i>See, img tags now support the width attribute, so let&#x27;s upload a 10MB photo and just tell the browser to resize it to 100px, because technology</i>.