Previous (same story, posted under different title):<p><i>A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32587740">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32587740</a> - Aug 2022 (349 comments)
A issue with this is favicons. Which take up loads of space since they are tiny (usually losslessly compressed raster) images. You can simplify them or make them smaller or in ycombinaters case turn them into SVG. But without _changing_ the image itself it's still around a dozen kilobytes in some cases
This would have been very doable with interactivity if we used bytecode instead of JavaScript. WinForms apps start at 5KB (dependent on .NET Framework).<p>Might become doable with WASM if standard library and DOM won't be dynamic dispatch only.