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Statistics: The Average Size of a Web Page is Now 1.3 MB, Up 35% in Last Year

Filed by on March 6, 2013

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@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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