The "Average Page" is a myth

1 · Ilya Grigorik · Jan. 12, 2016, 8 a.m.
As anyone and everyone in the web performance community will tell you, the size of the average page is continuously getting bigger: more JavaScript, more image and video bytes, growing use of web fonts, and so on. In fact, as of December 2015, the HTTP Archive shows that the average desktop site weighs in at 2227KB, and mobile is up to 1253KB. Except, what is an "average page", exactly? Intuitively, it is a page that is representative of the web at large, in its payload size, distribution of byt...