It rings in at 414ms, 1.9mb uncompressed (~1mb compressed), with a rather obnoxious 90 requests.
They're loading 961kb of script and 197kb of font content. A whole 41kb of actual HTML content in that obese vat of bytes.
On a small Quora page with no major images, they come in at 2mb of junk, 1500ms to load, with 79 requests.
A typical small Wikipedia page with one image will come in at 400kb-500kb and load in 400-500ms, with 26 requests.
GTMetrix lists the average load page size for their performance tests, compressed (!), at 3mb (with 89 requests). Framework bloat is like living on a sugar diet.
From Pingdom's Washington DC test location, on this Axios page:
https://www.axios.com/tropical-storm-sally-forms-off-florida...
It rings in at 414ms, 1.9mb uncompressed (~1mb compressed), with a rather obnoxious 90 requests.
They're loading 961kb of script and 197kb of font content. A whole 41kb of actual HTML content in that obese vat of bytes.
On a small Quora page with no major images, they come in at 2mb of junk, 1500ms to load, with 79 requests.
A typical small Wikipedia page with one image will come in at 400kb-500kb and load in 400-500ms, with 26 requests.
GTMetrix lists the average load page size for their performance tests, compressed (!), at 3mb (with 89 requests). Framework bloat is like living on a sugar diet.