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.com3.95 MB
353 requests
2.85 MB
86 requests
6.76 KB
1 request
193.37 KB
74 requests
35 s10
nytimes.com3.48 MB
166 requests
2.12 MB
59 requests
27.84 KB
7 requests
265.02 KB
25 requests
30 s24
ebay.com1.58 MB
156 requests
484.59 KB
32 requests
25.94 KB
3 requests
797.69 KB
78 requests
13 s35
amazon.com1.9 MB
218 requests
258.53 KB
15 requests
58.31 KB
8 requests
1.2 MB
120 requests
11 s47
aliexpress.com2.31 MB
248 requests
1.13 MB
52 requests
52.64 KB
17 requests
980.38 KB
91 requests
22 s15
reddit.com1.63 MB
76 requests
605.27 KB
16 requests
4.58 KB
2 requests
891.12 KB
36 requests
10 s28

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.com11.91 KB
6 requests
2.3 KB
1 request
2.12 KB
1 request
1.19 KB
3 requests
1 s100
teddit.net105.64 KB
27 requests
0 Bytes
0 requests
9.6 KB
2 requests
87.7 KB
24 requests
1 s82
terbium.io28.67 KB
5 requests
0 Bytes
0 requests
3.9 KB
2 requests
1.43 KB
1 request
1 s100
nintil.com138.4 KB
12 requests
81.04 KB
3 requests
11.51 KB
2 requests
557 Bytes
1 request
3 s94
php.watch431.81 KB
12 requests
13.05 KB
1 request
8.42 KB
1 request
390.48 KB
8 requests
2 s97
kmarkiv.com35.15 KB
9 requests
21.11 KB
2 requests
3.01 KB
1 request
5.16 KB
3 requests
2 s100
picnicss.com41.74 KB
7 requests
21.37 KB
2 requests
8.21 KB
1 request
1.42 KB
1 request
2 s99
macwright.com11.57 KB
1 request
0 Bytes
0 requests
0 Bytes
0 requests
0 Bytes
0 requests
1 s100
snestudio.com107.88 KB
7 requests
78.22 KB
2 requests
7.24 KB
1 request
18.81 KB
2 requests
2 s93
maxlaumeister.com148.02 KB
21 requests
110.79 KB
7 requests
5.71 KB
3 requests
23.01 KB
7 requests
3 s96
htmx.org386.95 KB
21 requests
111.76 KB
9 requests
9.71 KB
3 requests
259.32 KB
7 requests
3 s93

* 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.dev8.85 KB
3 requests
1.67 KB
1 request
2.12 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).