Having a smaller website makes it load faster — that's not surprising.  What is surprising is that a... Tagged with webperf, webdev, performance, todayilearned.

Fuad Pashayev

Community Picks is a section on daily.dev where our community members share the most interesting and valuable content they've discovered online. From insightful articles to handy tools, every post is a gem curated by our dedicated coomunity. To contribute to Community Picks, you need to have at least 250 reputation points, ensuring that only active and trusted members can share their finds.

Community Picks

A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page — maybe 612ms faster. TCP is an extension of IP that allows a browser and your website's server to tell each other which packets have successfully arrived.

Why your website should be under 14kb in size

Now that you know about the 14kb rule, what can you do?

<p>I feel like 14kb is so tough… or I am doing something terribly wrong. right now a blog post of mine comes in at about 500kb of resources :-(</p>
