It’s almost a little jarring, if you stop to think about it. Only two decades ago, the average size of a web page was 14.1 kilobytes. Anything larger was generally considered overdoing it.
As network technology improved and the Internet ingrained itself more and more into our lives, however, that number exploded – today, the average page hovers somewhere around 2 or 3 MB, and there’s no indication that this growth trend is going to stop anytime soon. Read more »