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# The website obesity crisis
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2016/01/the-website-obesity-crisis/
- Published: 2016-01-27T17:01:14.000Z
- Updated: 2016-01-27T17:03:38.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: site speed, website performance, websites

[Websites are getting obese – and we *should* care](http://idlewords.com/talks/website%5Fobesity.htm?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

I neglected to link this when it first came out – but it’s a really provoking read on how quickly website sizes are spiralling out of control on a per page basis:

> The article mentions that Google was able to boost user engagement in Google Maps by reducing the page weight from 100KB to 80KB.  
> Remember when Google Maps, the most sophisticated web app of its day, was thirty-five times smaller than a modern news article?

The key point: the size of the page is becoming disproportionally large against its key purpose: communicating information.