Statistics: The Average Size of a Web Page is Now 1.3 MB, Up 35% in Last Year
From the Canadian Press:
The average size of a web page continues to grow unabated, a trend that mobile users in particular should take note of.
According to the website HTTP Archive, which regularly studies the top 10,000 most-visited sites online, the average web page now weighs in at about 1.3 megabytes, up about 35 per cent in the last year.
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HTTP Archive suggests the average web page when browsing on a mobile device – accounting for the fact that some websites have mobile-optimized pages and others don’t – is about 720 kilobytes.
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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