"Average Web Page Size Is Up 15% In 2014"

The Website Obesity Crisis

Maciej Ceglowski | October 29, 2015

Let me start by saying that beautiful websites come in all sizes and page weights. I love big websites packed with images. I love high-resolution video. I love sprawling Javascript experiments or well-designed web apps.
This talk isn't about any of those. It's about mostly-text sites that, for unfathomable reasons, are growing bigger with every passing year.
While I'll be using examples to keep the talk from getting too abstract, I’m not here to shame anyone, except some companies (Medium) that should know better and are intentionally breaking the web.

Source: https://vimeo.com/147806338

<more at http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm; related links: https://vimeo.com/147806338 (+Video) (The Website Obesity Crisis. November 2015) and http://www.webdirections.org/blog/the-website-obesity-crisis/ (The Website Obesity Crisis. December 14, 2015)>