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.com11.19 MB
292 requests
3.16 MB
76 requests
27.2 KB
2 requests
487.83 KB
65 requests
43 s25
nytimes.com2.79 MB
109 requests
1.68 MB
30 requests
14.54 KB
2 requests
602.76 KB
17 requests
26 s32
ebay.com1.13 MB
124 requests
578.1 KB
28 requests
46.93 KB
5 requests
308.39 KB
61 requests
13 s43
aliexpress.com1.75 MB
254 requests
1.22 MB
53 requests
60.88 KB
16 requests
283.96 KB
86 requests
22 s24
reddit.com580.35 KB
139 requests
406.96 KB
111 requests
0 Bytes
0 requests
66.47 KB
12 requests
9 s37

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.com12.48 KB
6 requests
2.3 KB
1 request
2.13 KB
1 request
1.61 KB
3 requests
1 s98
teddit.net200.26 KB
31 requests
0 Bytes
0 requests
9.6 KB
2 requests
182.15 KB
28 requests
1 s87
terbium.io28.64 KB
5 requests
0 Bytes
0 requests
3.87 KB
2 requests
1.43 KB
1 request
1 s100
nintil.com380.65 KB
23 requests
298.23 KB
7 requests
11.52 KB
2 requests
952 Bytes
3 requests
6 s73
php.watch573.39 KB
14 requests
13.65 KB
1 request
11.53 KB
1 request
543.26 KB
11 requests
2 s95
kmarkiv.com119.09 KB
11 requests
105.63 KB
3 requests
3.02 KB
1 request
4.62 KB
2 requests
3 s95
picnicss.com122.33 KB
11 requests
102.02 KB
3 requests
8.21 KB
1 request
1.39 KB
3 requests
3 s91
macwright.com11.97 KB
1 request
0 Bytes
0 requests
0 Bytes
0 requests
0 Bytes
0 requests
1 s100
snestudio.com115.58 KB
7 requests
85.92 KB
2 requests
7.24 KB
1 request
18.81 KB
2 requests
2 s97
maxlaumeister.com157.48 KB
22 requests
119.63 KB
7 requests
5.91 KB
3 requests
23.36 KB
8 requests
4 s86
htmx.org605.09 KB
22 requests
62.79 KB
5 requests
5.78 KB
2 requests
524.74 KB
12 requests
3 s82

* 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.dev9.52 KB
5 requests
2.02 KB
1 request
2.22 KB
1 request
0 Bytes
0 requests
2 s99

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).