The average webpage is now almost a megabyte in size. Back in what I hate to refer to as “the day”, downloading a megabyte of data was a serious time investment. It still surprises me that every page click is now the equivalent of 20 minutes of 1998 online time. Which was 20p when it was 1p per minute. Also, I had a shit modem. It was more software than hardware. Like a car with an engine made of feathers.

Also, I can’t miss an opportunity to snark. The article linked above says:

“Ryan Kim at news site Gigaom speculated that the growth in the amount of Javascript on webpage was down to the growing use of HTML5”

Actually, Ryan, the growth in the amount of Javascript on webpages is, in fact, down to the growing use of Javascript on webpages. Javascript-heavy pages have been on the increase a long time before HTML5 showed up.