Credit: id Games/Engadget
Yes, according to a report from the HTTP Archive, the average size of a Web page is now around 2,301kB. Full install image for the id Games DOS classic, DOOM, was barely larger, at 2,393kB.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/22/web_page_now_big_as_doom/
Just for the record, pages on this blog are well below the Web average. In particular, some effort is invested in ensuring that images are below 100kB. Case in point – image at the top of The Register article linked above is 106kB – image at the top of this item is just 50kB.
Exceptions to the 100kB rule are made if a critical image is only available in a larger size. / web DOOM average page id Games DOS classic BFG BFHTTP average web page same size full install image classic DOS game Doom according to Ronan Cremin lead engineer Afilias Technologies dotMobi W3C World Wide Web Consortium data HTTP Archive 2.3MB average page same size original DOS install id Software mega-hit HTTP Archive report average web page 2,301KB Doom's 2,393KB footprint slightly page bloat images average 1,463KB data script code 360KB video averaging 200KB per page growing size of pages wasteful some sites have become broadband connections Doom multi-level first person shooter ships advanced 3D rendering engine multiple levels maps sprites sound effects Web deliver page of web content average page size Web swollen top sites gotten smaller HTTP Archive top 10 Alexa-ranked sites dropped average page size developers page bloat top sites search engines keeping things light getting lighter heavier top ten websites list relatively rich sites Amazon PCs complexity size of Internet downloads playing Doom full disclosure average article page weight about 400KB fetch everything fresh maximizing data centre efficiencies /
