Modern Web in Numbers

Modern web is beyond broken. Even the simplest websites are becoming performance, privacy and accessibility nightmares. And it's only getting worse.

Important note: beside the obvious page size problem, TTI (Time To Interactive) is also a huge problem - a lot of websites take way too much time to become interactive (usable). This problem is more pronounced on mobile phones and other slower devices.

Site SortPage Size SortJavaScript SortCSS SortImages SortTTI SortScore Sort
cnn.com4.7 MB
417 requests
2.39 MB
84 requests
25.84 KB
3 requests
605.72 KB
107 requests
40 s25
nytimes.com8.3 MB
156 requests
1.99 MB
48 requests
31.17 KB
7 requests
1.8 MB
30 requests
31 s39
ebay.com1.01 MB
120 requests
418.2 KB
23 requests
24.49 KB
2 requests
228.35 KB
53 requests
11 s67
amazon.com2.05 MB
248 requests
309.08 KB
19 requests
52.67 KB
8 requests
1.3 MB
139 requests
14 s54
aliexpress.com2.43 MB
276 requests
1.19 MB
60 requests
61.92 KB
19 requests
1012.02 KB
102 requests
25 s17
reddit.com943.91 KB
130 requests
441.54 KB
108 requests
1.32 KB
1 request
399.11 KB
12 requests
8 s43

Small and fast is beautiful

List of the sites which fit into the above description.

If you have (or know) a site which belongs here, please submit the url here.

Site SortPage Size SortJavaScript SortCSS SortImages SortTTI SortScore Sort
news.ycombinator.com12.52 KB
6 requests
2.3 KB
1 request
2.12 KB
1 request
1.63 KB
3 requests
1 s100
teddit.net165.88 KB
26 requests
0 Bytes
0 requests
9.6 KB
2 requests
146.59 KB
23 requests
3 s86
terbium.io28.64 KB
5 requests
0 Bytes
0 requests
3.87 KB
2 requests
1.43 KB
1 request
1 s100
nintil.com363.05 KB
25 requests
280.59 KB
9 requests
11.54 KB
2 requests
952 Bytes
3 requests
6 s82
php.watch425.96 KB
12 requests
13 KB
1 request
8.42 KB
1 request
384.76 KB
8 requests
2 s94
kmarkiv.com116.14 KB
11 requests
102.63 KB
3 requests
3.01 KB
1 request
4.62 KB
2 requests
3 s97
picnicss.com119.14 KB
9 requests
98.85 KB
3 requests
8.19 KB
1 request
1.39 KB
1 request
4 s91
macwright.com11.85 KB
1 request
0 Bytes
0 requests
0 Bytes
0 requests
0 Bytes
0 requests
1 s100
snestudio.com111.43 KB
7 requests
81.8 KB
2 requests
7.23 KB
1 request
18.79 KB
2 requests
2 s92
maxlaumeister.com152.59 KB
21 requests
115.34 KB
7 requests
5.76 KB
3 requests
23.01 KB
7 requests
3 s91
htmx.org485.67 KB
19 requests
60.02 KB
5 requests
5.67 KB
2 requests
408.93 KB
9 requests
2 s99

* HN deserves the special mention here - written in Arc and serving millions of page view daily on a single server

For the reference, here's also betterways.dev's numbers (I still have to optimize a few things):

Site SortPage Size SortJavaScript SortCSS SortImages SortTTI SortScore Sort
betterways.dev8.79 KB
4 requests
1.99 KB
1 request
2.18 KB
1 request
0 Bytes
0 requests
1 s100

Quick tips on making the web a better place

Debloat your website and make it accessible

* Note: the numbers are for reference only; they are periodically refreshed by using PageSpeed Insights (mobile).