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.com6.37 MB
310 requests
3.19 MB
76 requests
27.2 KB
2 requests
448.19 KB
85 requests
44 s25
nytimes.com3.13 MB
110 requests
2.23 MB
33 requests
14.64 KB
2 requests
404.44 KB
18 requests
32 s29
ebay.com1.07 MB
107 requests
646.75 KB
24 requests
60.07 KB
4 requests
215.27 KB
53 requests
12 s53
aliexpress.com2.28 MB
238 requests
1.33 MB
62 requests
65.57 KB
17 requests
661.86 KB
81 requests
27 s25
reddit.com2.74 MB
220 requests
1.05 MB
167 requests
27.18 KB
3 requests
384.88 KB
17 requests
16 s41

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.com11.87 KB
6 requests
2.23 KB
1 request
2.07 KB
1 request
1.36 KB
3 requests
1 s100
terbium.io28.64 KB
5 requests
0 Bytes
0 requests
3.87 KB
2 requests
1.43 KB
1 request
1 s100
nintil.com385.43 KB
23 requests
303.33 KB
7 requests
11.52 KB
2 requests
952 Bytes
3 requests
6 s78
php.watch629.73 KB
14 requests
12.84 KB
1 request
10.8 KB
1 request
601.13 KB
11 requests
2 s94
kmarkiv.com122.37 KB
11 requests
108.85 KB
3 requests
3.02 KB
1 request
4.62 KB
2 requests
3 s99
picnicss.com125.47 KB
11 requests
105.18 KB
3 requests
8.18 KB
1 request
1.39 KB
3 requests
4 s88
macwright.com12.26 KB
1 request
0 Bytes
0 requests
0 Bytes
0 requests
0 Bytes
0 requests
1 s100
snestudio.com118.79 KB
7 requests
89.14 KB
2 requests
7.23 KB
1 request
18.8 KB
2 requests
3 s90
maxlaumeister.com160.62 KB
22 requests
122.9 KB
7 requests
5.88 KB
3 requests
23.29 KB
8 requests
3 s90
htmx.org558.72 KB
33 requests
62.88 KB
5 requests
77.44 KB
2 requests
405.71 KB
23 requests
4 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.dev30.7 KB
6 requests
2.02 KB
1 request
2.22 KB
1 request
21.13 KB
1 request
2 s98

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).