There are times when I hear about a web performance failure so bad that it borders on legend. This is one of those times.
From the perf.fail blog comes: LG G Watch site delivers an images-gone-wrong 54MB RWD experience. Honestly the first thing I did after reading that was open the page in Chrome with the network panel showing, just to confirm this was real:
A 54MB first view experience. But that doesn’t really do it justice. To really get a feel for this you need to check out the webpagetest waterfall graph for the site:
348 requests, now that is impressive.
To be fair though, this isn’t a complete webperf fail. The repeat view experience is only 35KB, with 3 requests.
One reply on “The 54MB Legend”
This definitely made it into the hall of fame of bad practice. So much so, that I’m actually giggling like a small child.