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.com10.59 MB
379 requests
3.55 MB
77 requests
33.88 KB
3 requests
2.23 MB
92 requests
48 s25
nytimes.com5.34 MB
138 requests
1.79 MB
45 requests
20 KB
5 requests
672.39 KB
28 requests
29 s38
ebay.com2.02 MB
225 requests
914.13 KB
62 requests
33.7 KB
6 requests
580.08 KB
89 requests
17 s50
amazon.com1.91 MB
261 requests
276.52 KB
19 requests
53.06 KB
8 requests
1.18 MB
155 requests
12 s54
aliexpress.com2.2 MB
251 requests
1.13 MB
53 requests
52.63 KB
18 requests
859.82 KB
83 requests
21 s23
reddit.com1.26 MB
72 requests
622.7 KB
16 requests
4.91 KB
2 requests
503.77 KB
32 requests
10 s32

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.com13.13 KB
6 requests
2.3 KB
1 request
2.12 KB
1 request
2.2 KB
3 requests
1 s100
teddit.net135.16 KB
27 requests
0 Bytes
0 requests
9.6 KB
2 requests
116.32 KB
24 requests
1 s83
terbium.io28.73 KB
5 requests
0 Bytes
0 requests
3.93 KB
2 requests
1.43 KB
1 request
1 s100
nintil.com354.41 KB
26 requests
272.33 KB
10 requests
11.55 KB
2 requests
1.08 KB
3 requests
6 s87
php.watch449.58 KB
12 requests
13.06 KB
1 request
8.42 KB
1 request
408.26 KB
8 requests
2 s96
kmarkiv.com113.41 KB
13 requests
98.8 KB
3 requests
3.02 KB
1 request
5.71 KB
4 requests
3 s97
picnicss.com115.65 KB
9 requests
95.28 KB
3 requests
8.22 KB
1 request
1.42 KB
1 request
3 s92
macwright.com11.64 KB
1 request
0 Bytes
0 requests
0 Bytes
0 requests
0 Bytes
0 requests
1 s100
snestudio.com110.23 KB
7 requests
80.58 KB
2 requests
7.24 KB
1 request
18.8 KB
2 requests
2 s99
maxlaumeister.com150.93 KB
21 requests
113.8 KB
7 requests
5.71 KB
3 requests
22.95 KB
7 requests
3 s85
htmx.org477.16 KB
17 requests
59.78 KB
5 requests
2.43 KB
1 request
408.73 KB
9 requests
2 s98

* 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.dev10.22 KB
4 requests
2.02 KB
1 request
2.23 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).