Mat Lipe Dot Com

Mat Lipe Dot Com

Reflections from a Distinguished Software Engineer

Your Site Is Too Heavy

Honestly, is your site really 1,320KB in size? How do you expect me to open the site on my phone when I’m not on WIFI?

All over the web, so called web site experts have sites which take more than 1MB to load. Lately I’ve seen some with as many as 3MB to load. If you can’t get it done in under 150KB then you should probably hire a better developer.

I understand some complex React application are heavier to load due to the 150KB just for React. But really, your website should not be built in React.

My main business website loads in 47.3KB and drives me crazy that is is so heavy. Something like 20% of the size is the custom font which I consider killing at least twice a day.

Even the homepage of this site, which unnecessarily loads Svelte for FAQ, is still only 59.8K.

Lets Do A Quick Test

Page SizeUncached Load Time
59.8KB261 ms
1.6MB959 ms

Alright, not too bad on my 1GB synchronous internet.

Let’s try again, this time on 4G.

Page SizeUncached Load Time
59.8KB763 ms
1.6MB3,670 ms

Geeze, nearly 4 seconds to load your site. Not to mention eating up my monthly data.

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