I was hoping it was a blip. I was hoping 2015 would be the year of performance. I was wrong. Average web page weight has soared 7.5% in five months to exceed 2Mb. That's three 3.5 inch double-density floppy disks-worth of data (ask your grandparents!) According to the May 15, 2015 HTTP Archive Report, the statistics gathered from almost half a million web pages are:
| technology | end 2014 | May 2015 | increase |
|---|---|---|---|
| HTML | 59Kb | 56Kb | -5% |
| CSS | 57Kb | 63Kb | +11% |
| JavaScript | 295Kb | 329Kb | +12% |
| Images | 1,243Kb | 1,310Kb | +5% |
| Flash | 76Kb | 90Kb | +18% |
| Other | 223Kb | 251Kb | +13% |
| Total | 1,953Kb | 2,099Kb | +7.5% |
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by Craig Buckler via SitePoint
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