Super Mario Bros shipped in 40KB. A bare React app ships more before you write a line of your own. What did they know that we forgot?

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[–] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I put my personal site through the "fire"fox page profiler. Get rektum.

Technical breakdown

Frontpage :


Empty cache
Number of requests
  Type   Size      Transferred  Time   Non blocking time
2 images 10.71 kB  2.52 kB      0.54s  0.54 s
1 css    3.82 kB   1.24 kB      0.24 s 0.24 s
1 html   2.08 kB   2.40 kB      1.81 s 0.76 s
Cached responses: 0
Total requests: 4
Size: 16.60 kB
Transferred Size: 6.15 kB
Time: 2.58 seconds
Non blocking time: 1.53 seconds

Page with images


Empty cache
Number of requests
  Type   Size     Transferred  Time   Non blocking time
4 images 79.16 kB 71.65 kB     2.01 s 2.01 s
1 css    3.82 kB  1.24 kB      0.28 s 0.28 s
1 html   1.38 kB  1.70 kB      0.75 s 0.75 s
Cached responses: 0
Total requests: 6
Size: 84.36 kB
Transferred Size: 74.59 kB
Time: 3.04 seconds
Non blocking time: 3.04 seconds


JS application demo

Empty cache
Number of requests
  Type   Size     Transferred  Time    Non blocking time
6 js     43.65 kB 10.48 kB     1.58 s  1.59 s
1 css    3.83 kB  1.06 kB      0.30 s  0.30 s
2 images 0.51 kB  1.03 kB      0.50 s  0.50 s
1 html   0.39 kB  0.71 kB      0.73 s  0.73 s
Cached responses: 0
Total requests: 10
Size: 48.38 kB
Transferred Size: 13.28 kB
Time: 3.12 seconds
Non blocking time: 3.12 seconds

Lol said the Skullgrid. LMAO.

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