I work with parolees who often only have government-issued phones with maybe 5GB or 15GB of data per month, which generally only lasts the first couple of days of the month due to issues like that. I come across home pages regularly now that are >250MB of download :(
I'll try and find some. I remember the ones I hit were "magazine" style news sites. Without uBlock they are horrible with huge video payloads in the sidebars etc.
> Nowadays it's often hard to even notice a 4 MB file, especially when you're on a gigabit connection or better.
The images on the page load quite slowly. Wifi is terrible here due to way too many hotspots and way too many different businesses providing their own wifi. And the trunk which it is on is also horrible in it's own right so even when the wifi connnection is ok, it's still broken.
So no, this is not fine.
(ping is between 100-4000ms on a good day and speeds between 100Kb/s to about 40Mb/s (that's bit, not misspelled byte), on a bad day it's None)
This is sometimes so hard to remember. There’s so much content on optimizing for page size — and admittedly, it does matter a lot in some industries like e-commerce and/or if you have users in less developed countries — but quite a lot of situations kind of just let you ignore it.
I work in B2B and we frankly put way more effort in than we should have to optimize bundle size before just making the assumption that everyone has a good connection and we didn’t really need to worry about it.
Of course unfortunately not everyone has a connection like that. But can understand how someone might have missed it.