Just scrolling through the list, it looked like many of them were blogs and personal websites. I'd be much more interested in seeing lean corporate websites, as those are made by teams with deadlines and requirements to actually look good<p>Edit: Just noticed <a href="https://lichess.org/" rel="nofollow">https://lichess.org/</a> is on the list
I spent a lot of time shrinking down a site of mine last year. It bulked up a little bit later but is still only 22k even with images and mobile friendliness :)<p><a href="https://gtmetrix.com/reports/concise-encoding.org/IbSyhS6i/" rel="nofollow">https://gtmetrix.com/reports/concise-encoding.org/IbSyhS6i/</a>
Just checked my site[0] and got 247kb[1] Uncompressed and 136kb compressed, the only improvements I can see is reduce image sizes and remove third party JS code, mostly injected by Cloudflare.<p>[0] <a href="https://golang.cafe" rel="nofollow">https://golang.cafe</a><p>[1] <a href="https://gtmetrix.com/reports/golang.cafe/7PvRciZS/" rel="nofollow">https://gtmetrix.com/reports/golang.cafe/7PvRciZS/</a><p>edit: 215kb after removing unnecessary js third-parties (instant.page and CF rocket loader) <a href="https://gtmetrix.com/reports/golang.cafe/Xey7C7LM/" rel="nofollow">https://gtmetrix.com/reports/golang.cafe/Xey7C7LM/</a><p>ps: also the site is not a static site, it connects to postgresql and serves 2,000 requests daily on avg
These lists are a fine starting point, but I think that the next step is to do some curation and showcase really nice / impressive examples of lean sites.<p>Perhaps one approach would be to have an old-school web directory, like <a href="https://href.cool/" rel="nofollow">https://href.cool/</a> where you have a little screenshot and blurb about why a site is notable or worth visiting.
I wish there was a way to filter this for non text only sites. Yeah it loads fast and has a small footprint but that's hardly impressive when it's just a no css site containing a few paragraphs. I'd love to see some tiny impressive webassembly feats within this bound.
It's a real shame you can't add sites without a github account. I'd like to add search.marginalia.nu which clocks in at about 80 Kb for a full search result page.
Aside relevance:<p>so this member checks his internet consumption and has a little shock seeing that he seems to have burnt over 5GB in a few hours, which were especially odd since he could not remember having done anything special, as some practical reasons rendered it impossible in that timeframe. He started suspecting malware.<p>Than it dawned on him: in those hours he spent time scrolling one page in Reddit. Ludicrous as it is, that remains the only relevant voluntary activity.<p>And then he planned to start monitoring consumption systematically through `iftop` (which also needs permanent in-session memory of total consumption per address/domain, by the way).
Oooh my site (jaruzel.com) qualifies for 'Orange team'. I doubt I'll go to the effort of doing a Pull Request on GitHub to get it included. Nice Idea though.
Thanks to this I've discovered Textpattern:<p><a href="https://textpattern.com/showcase/" rel="nofollow">https://textpattern.com/showcase/</a>
How many of these sites serve more than 1000 queries per day to human users?<p>Most people find the benefits of small websites to be all that compelling. And most businesses seem to be responding to the incentives imposed by this state of affairs. I would love to see a listing of <i>popular</i> websites that are very compact.
So few of these are actually good sites. The majority are text-only portfolios. Go figure they’re a paltry few kB.<p>It feels like the list is pointless, it’s saying “small sites are small” - instead of showcasing well-optimized sites that you would expect to be quite large.<p>Here’s my submission to usurp first place:<p><pre><code> <p>lelandfe’s site</code></pre>
Since this centers around minimalism, I figured I'd point out, to those that don't yet know of it, that a successor to Gopher exists. It's called Gemini.<p><a href="https://gemini.circumlunar.space/" rel="nofollow">https://gemini.circumlunar.space/</a><p>You can even get hosting for your Gemini site there.<p>Some sites are actually going exclusively Gemini, or partially exclusive to Gemini. Proxies to Gemini exist too.