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The average web page is 3MB. How much should we care?

Speed Curve

I've written a lot of posts about page bloat, starting way back in 2012, when the average page hit 1MB. They don't represent the "typical" website, because there's no such thing as a typical website. These numbers should not in any way even remotely be taken as a benchmark for your own site. The answer was no.

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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. The median page today serves 25 images, compared to 42 images back in 2012. You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ). Not all pages are getting bigger. How quickly do they show up?

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Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT

O'Reilly

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. Right now, widely-used benchmarks for AI code generation (e.g.,

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

The risks embedded in these deep-wetware effects, and their cross-origin implications, mean that your website's success is partially a function of the health of the commons. The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. low-end Androids have finally caught up to the iPhone 5 from 2012.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Over years, this article has evolved into a book – please visit Introduction to Algorithmic Marketing website to download]. recommendations on a website) to each customer to maximize the purchasing performance of the population. Gallien, 2012. Duhigg, 2012. Zhang, 2012. Applications. Nakanishi, 2010.

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