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But tens to even hundreds of times smaller than any single tweet that has an image in it, so not really a useful metric.


That attitude is why web pages have gotten so bloated.

https://twitter.com/Twitter is 1.6mb. (200k+ of fonts, 500k+ of JS)


And heaven forbid browser caches frequently used sites, which would make that complaint an equally meaningless metric.


Actually webbloatscore.com says 2,062 kB and 88 requests.




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