Another 10k Apart: Create a Website in 10 KB, Win Prizes

From the 5k challenge in 2000: &quot;Indeed, the winning site offered a witty yet powerful critique of the current state of the web via a fully functional e-commerce shopping cart. In less than 5K. Bastards.&quot;<p>The winning site: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20000510060852&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sylloge.com&#x2F;5k&#x2F;entries&#x2F;182&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20000510060852&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sylloge...</a>

&gt;Build a compelling web experience that can be delivered in 10KB and works without JavaScript.<p>It&#x27;s difficult to imagine what such an experience would contain, CSS animation trickery?<p>I&#x27;m very pro minimal UI code, my last hobby project didn&#x27;t include any framework libraries and the front-end came in at 23kb including images, CSS, HTML and JS.<p>But without a back-end, and without JS (no SPAs), is this just a contest to build the best looking static page?

I know a simple blog isn&#x27;t the type of site this contest has in mind, but a couple years back I tried to shrink my blog&#x27;s homepage. I got some good feedback and was happy with the result. Since I go long stretches of time without doing frontend, I felt it was a worthwhile exercise.<p>This is what I learned from the experience: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;openmymind.net&#x2F;Minimalist-Markup&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;openmymind.net&#x2F;Minimalist-Markup&#x2F;</a>

Woah now, everyone knows making a site with less than 10,000 dependencies isn&#x27;t possible these days.<p>Wait, we&#x27;re talking about bytes?

Cool, but the contest page (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a-k-apart.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a-k-apart.com</a>) is 204.5 K. Disappointed.

Is the 10kb limit per page? Per site(including backend)? Per content served to the user on a single page load?

No Golang support :(

Cue massive traffic spikes on <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;microjs.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;microjs.com&#x2F;</a>

Using tabs instead of spaces should help

I got really excited until I realized I couldn&#x27;t use JavaScript. Over the last year I got super passionate about making the smallest JavaScript bundle size possible with RiotJS or Preact.<p>I guess they really mean the old school &#x27;website&#x27; (like the html 1.0 strict days), so maybe a html document with everything inline and no special fonts.