Mike Tomlinson wrote:
A major part of the problem is advertising. Those selfish ****ers think
nothing of hurling flashing, auto-vid-playing, noisy ads that consume
more bandwidth combined than the page you actually wanted to look at.
And then they whinge that people use ad-blockers to preserve their
sanity.

http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

"...

To repeat a suggestion I made on Twitter, I contend that text-based
web[pages] should not exceed in size the major works of Russian literature.

This is a generous yardstick. I could have picked French literature, full of
slim little books, but I intentionally went with Russian novels and their
reputation for ponderousness.

In Goncharov's Oblomov, for example, the title character spends the first
hundred pages just getting out of bed.

If you open that tweet in a browser, you'll see the page is 900 KB big.
That's almost 100 KB more than the full text of The Master and Margarita,
Bulgakovs funny and enigmatic novel about the Devil visiting Moscow with
his retinue (complete with a giant cat!) during the Great Purge of 1937,
intercut with an odd vision of the life of Pontius Pilate, Jesus Christ, and
the devoted but unreliable apostle Matthew.

For a single tweet.

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Theo