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.com11.73 MB
403 requests
4.05 MB
81 requests
44.92 KB
3 requests
1.65 MB
124 requests
50 s27
nytimes.com3.55 MB
166 requests
2.71 MB
57 requests
33.54 KB
7 requests
73.26 KB
17 requests
29 s25
ebay.com11.86 MB
142 requests
1.33 MB
21 requests
87.33 KB
3 requests
10.16 MB
90 requests
18 s67
aliexpress.com1.95 MB
151 requests
1.06 MB
52 requests
67.37 KB
13 requests
581.89 KB
48 requests
16 s38
reddit.com4.07 MB
258 requests
1.23 MB
177 requests
45.18 KB
3 requests
1.35 MB
50 requests
17 s49

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.com12.11 KB
6 requests
2.22 KB
1 request
2.07 KB
1 request
1.36 KB
3 requests
1 s100
terbium.io28.7 KB
5 requests
0 Bytes
0 requests
3.9 KB
2 requests
1.43 KB
1 request
1 s100
nintil.com464.16 KB
21 requests
360.36 KB
8 requests
10.08 KB
1 request
552 Bytes
2 requests
3 s100
php.watch329.11 KB
14 requests
12.8 KB
1 request
13.36 KB
1 request
297.83 KB
11 requests
2 s99
kmarkiv.com153.63 KB
9 requests
140.06 KB
3 requests
3.02 KB
1 request
4.07 KB
1 request
3 s98
picnicss.com162.79 KB
12 requests
135.87 KB
3 requests
8.88 KB
1 request
6.79 KB
4 requests
3 s91
macwright.com397.33 KB
10 requests
0 Bytes
0 requests
0 Bytes
0 requests
393.76 KB
9 requests
1 s100
snestudio.com920.71 KB
7 requests
124.25 KB
2 requests
174.58 KB
1 request
617.41 KB
2 requests
3 s95
maxlaumeister.com186.54 KB
23 requests
142.52 KB
7 requests
7.34 KB
3 requests
26.17 KB
8 requests
3 s94
htmx.org1.02 MB
58 requests
70.08 KB
5 requests
48.21 KB
2 requests
915.31 KB
48 requests
4 s79

* 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 onethingwell.dev's numbers (I still have to optimize a few things):

Site SortPage Size SortJavaScript SortCSS SortImages SortTTI SortScore Sort
onethingwell.dev38.97 KB
7 requests
2.11 KB
1 request
6.27 KB
1 request
23.76 KB
3 requests
1 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).