>Out of an abundance of love for the mobile web, Google has volunteered to run the infrastructure, especially the user tracking parts of it.
Very well written article, even if it is almost as long as a Russian novel:) But i don't know how to check, can someone tell me how big the page is? And maybe by comparison, how big this HN page is.
The article is about 1 MB as transferred; essentially all of that is composed of the images (the HTML itself is small at ~23.3 kB uncompressed, and the page loads no other resources).
The Hacker News homepage, when I tested it, transferred about 13.1 kB.
There is a lot of images and 1mb, by the exacting standards of the author is a (little) bit big i think. Also, the page seems to be a bit....boring? Static images are unexciting especially the stock ones the author uses. Not only that, but the text seems to be unnecessarily narrow and long. I do think a case could be made for so- called "bloated" webpages.
>Out of an abundance of love for the mobile web, Google has volunteered to run the infrastructure, especially the user tracking parts of it.
Very well written article, even if it is almost as long as a Russian novel:) But i don't know how to check, can someone tell me how big the page is? And maybe by comparison, how big this HN page is.