Good and bad examples of sites
All sites tested in Firefox version 133 with a clean profile, tracking protection and other privacy settings turned off.
Quad9 DNS used, Swedish IP, no sites signed in to, site force-reloaded 10 times after 10 seconds spent on site.
Cache disabled, no functionality / services tested beyond landing page.
Sizes are in transit (a.k.a compressed), sizes in kB rounded to nearest whole number.
Results and testing as unbiased as technically possible; descriptions may not be :)
Sites tested picked from multiple sources of "Top 50 sites" etc, as well as personal choices.
Good sites
Download CSV| URL | Action | Author | Category | Size | Size w/o JS | Requests | Requests w/o JS | Captured | Note | Works w/o JS | Description |
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| https://swiftsites.fyi/ | N/A | IttyKeys | Info / Blog | 16 kB | N/A ** | 1 | N/A ** | 01/06/25 | Very good :) | Yes | Because the modern web is bloated and slow |
| https://skaneresa.se/ | N/A | IttyKeys | Travel agency | 320 kB | 62 kB | 19 | 10 | 12/27/24 | Very good :) | No | Look up train times in Scania Sweden |
| https://www.fsf.org/ | N/A | Free Software Foundation | A landing page | 1.03 MB | 916 kB | 45 | 41 | 12/22/24 | Yes | “The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom.” | |
| https://kernel.org/ | N/A | Linux Kernel Organization Inc. | Archive | 96 kB | N/A ** | 15 | N/A ** | 12/22/24 | Very good | Yes | “The Linux Kernel Organization is a California Public Benefit Corporation established in 2002 to distribute the Linux kernel “ |
| https://www.perl.org/ | N/A | Perl.org | Info / Blog | 477 kB | 220 kB | 34 | 24 | 12/22/24 | Yes | “The Perl Programming Language” | |
| https://quidsup.net/ | N/A | QuidsUp | Info / Blog | 174 kB | N/A ** | 8 | N/A ** | 12/22/24 | Very good | Yes | QuidsUp |
| https://aftonbladet.se/ | Accepted cookies | Schibsted ASA | News | 1.60 MB * | 700 kB * | 60 * | 29 * | 12/22/24 | Yes | Swedish news magazine known for its checkmarks | |
| http://frogfind.com/ | N/A | Action Retro | Search Engine Proxy | 4 kB | N/A ** | 3 | N/A ** | 12/22/24 | Very good | Yes | Search Engine Proxy for DuckDuckGo retro-computer compatible |
| https://www.google.com/ | N/A | Alphabet Inc. | Search Engine | 1.45 MB | 66 kB | 44 | 9 | 12/22/24 | Very good (w/o JS) | Yes | Search engine focused on speed indexing all of the web and indexing everyOne |
| https://nohello.net/ | N/A | Joshua May ? | Entertainment | 123 kB | 114 kB | 20 | 16 | 12/22/24 | Very good | Yes ⁹ | please don't say just hello in chat |
| https://www.mozilla.org/ | N/A | Mozilla | A landing page | 592 kB | 840 kB | 46 | 58 | 12/22/24 | Yes | Landing page for Mozilla developer of Firefox and Thunderbird | |
| https://www.w3schools.com/ | N/A | Refsnes Data | Encyclopedia | 1.10 MB | 3.47 MB | 34 | 34 | 12/22/24 | Yes | Encyclopedia for all things web development related | |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page | N/A | Wikimedia Foundation | Encyclopedia | 254 kB * | 201 kB * | 31 * | 32 * | 12/22/24 | Very good | Yes | The worlds biggest entirely free encyclopedia |
| https://telegram.org | N/A | Telegram Messenger Inc. | Communication | 1.74 MB | 765 kB | 62 | 22 | 12/22/24 | Yes | Telegram is an encrypted messaging platform developed by Pavel Durov | |
| https://www.shopify.com/ | N/A | Shopify Inc. | Ecommerce | 2.02 MB | 1.99 MB | 35 | 77 | 12/22/24 | Yes | Provides ecommerce services | |
| https://evernote.com/ | Accepted cookies | Bending Spoons S.p.A. | Office suite | 1.46 MB | 1.03 MB | 63 | 49 | 12/22/24 | Yes | Office suite with focus on taking notes | |
| https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ | N/A | Berkshire Hathaway Inc. | Info / Blog | 219 kB | 5 kB | 7 | 3 | 12/22/24 | Very good | Yes | “Berkshire Hathaway is a holding company run by Warren Buffett” |
| https://www.scalemates.com/ | N/A | Scalemates? | Ecommerce? | 258 kB * | 105 kB * | 34 * | 24 * | 12/22/24 | Yes | Sells stuff? Kits? Paints? | |
| https://www.corewebvitals.io/ | N/A | Arjen Karel | Web services | 258 kB | 260 kB | 17 | 32 | 12/22/24 | Yes | “Your Core Web Vitals Optimized” | |
| https://wpalpha.io/ | N/A | WpAlpha ? | Web services | 913 kB | 715 kB | 41 | 28 | 12/22/24 | Yes | “Website Speed Optimization that improves your conversion rates” | |
| https://www.bazos.sk/ | N/A | Bazoš? | Ecommerce | 245 kB * | 82 kB * | 27 * | 25 * | 12/22/24 | Yes | Slovakian ecommerce site | |
| https://www.svt.se/ | Accepted cookies | SVT | News | 930 kB * | 4.45 MB * | 69 * | 108 * | 12/22/24 | Yes | Swedish public service | |
| https://sverigesradio.se/ | N/A | SR | News | 1.13 MB * | 1.14 MB * | 32 * | 31 * | 12/22/24 | Sorta | Swedish public service | |
| https://dev.to | Accepted cookies | DEV Community | Social Media | 1.16 MB * | 606 kB | 44 * | 69* | 12/22/24 | Yes | “We're a place where coders share stay up-to-date and grow their careers. “ | |
| https://css-tricks.com/ | N/A | Digital Ocean | Web services | 1.09 MB | 1.20 MB | 43 | 30 | 12/22/24 | Yes | CSS-Tricks | |
| https://timkadlec.com/ | N/A | Tim Kadlec | Info / Blog | 113 kB | 107 kB | 20 | 18 | 12/22/24 | Yes | “I help organizations improve the effectiveness and reach of their sites by ensuring that they perform quickly—and stay that way.” | |
| https://infrequently.org/ | N/A | Alex Russell | Info / Blog | 276 kB | 537 kB | 8 | 108 * | 12/22/24 | Yes | “Alex Russell on browsers standards and the process of progress.” | |
| https://adactio.com/ | N/A | Jeremy Keith | Info / Blog | 398 kB | 925 kB | 12 | 15 | 12/22/24 | Yes | “Adactio is the online home of Jeremy Keith a web developer and author living and working in Brighton England. “ | |
| https://rubberduckdebugging.com/ | N/A | Ben Holland | Info / Blog | 44 kB | 43 kB | 6 | 4 | 01/06/25 | Yes | “Debugging software with a rubber ducky” | |
| https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ | N/A | @thebarrytone | Info / Blog | 3 kB | 3 kB | 3 | 2 | 01/06/25 | Very good | Yes | “This is a motherfucking website.” |
Edgecases
Download CSV| URL | Action | Author | Category | Size | Size w/o JS | Requests | Requests w/o JS | Captured | Note | Works w/o JS | Description |
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| https://debian.org | N/A | Debian | Info / Blog | 2.06 MB | N/A ** | 25 | N/A ** | 01/02/25 | Yes | “The universal operating system” | |
| https://www.stim.se/ | Accepted cookies | STIM | Info / Blog | 1.09 MB * | 876 kB * | 52 * | 32 * | 01/02/25 | Yes | “For the love of music since 1923” | |
| https://mint.intuit.com/ | N/A | Intuit Inc. | Financial services | 428 kB | 429 error | 109 | 429 error | 12/22/24 | No | Financial & budgeting services | |
| https://archive.org/ | N/A | Internet Archive | Archive | 868 kB | 404 error | 85 | 404 error | 12/22/24 | No | Archive for literally everything also hosts WayBack Machine | |
| https://facebook.com/ | N/A | Meta | Social Media | 1.32 MB | 290 kB | 65 | 14 | 12/22/24 | Sorta | Social media platform from Meta mainly for moms in their 60s | |
| https://x.com/ | N/A | X Corp | Social Media | 2.80 MB | 75 kB | 81 | 4 | 12/22/24 | No | Social media platform from X Corp originally known as Twitter mainly for right-winged lunatics | |
| https://chatgpt.com/ | N/A | OpenAI Inc. | AI platform | 1.42 MB | 35 kB | 97 | 7 | 12/22/24 | No | Interactive large language models from OpenAI known for the LLMs hallucinations | |
| https://www.netflix.com/ | N/A | Netflix Inc. | Streaming Service | 2.40 MB | 1.04 MB | 45 | 21 | 12/22/24 | No | Movies and series streaming platform that destroyed Hollywood then came begging for its stars | |
| https://duckduckgo.com/ | N/A | DuckDuckGo | Search Engine | 2.56 MB | 44.43 kB | 71 | 7 | 12/22/24 | Yes | Search engine focused on privacy | |
| https://pornhub.com | Age consented | Pornhub | Streaming Service | 1.96 MB * | 1.55 MB * | 104 * | 114 * | 12/22/24 | No | Porn site focused on creators like YouTube but for porn | |
| https://www.linkedin.com/ | N/A | Microsoft Corporation | Social Media | 990 kB | 92 kB | 90 | 6 | 12/22/24 | Sorta | Social media & job avertisement platform from Microsoft known for lunatics lying about daily activities | |
| https://www.ebay.com/ | N/A | eBay Inc. | Ecommerce | 5.82 MB * | 2.38 MB * | 84 * | 31 * | 12/22/24 | Sorta | Auction & all-around ecommerce platform | |
| https://www.xvideos.com/ | Age consented & accepted cookies | XVideos.com | Streaming Service | 2.52 MB * | 348 kB * | 75 * | 9 * | 12/22/24 | Sorta | Porn site with videos from both indie creators and companies | |
| https://www.microsoft.com/ | N/A | Microsoft Corporation | A landing page | 1.13 MB | 464 kB | 111 | 44 | 12/22/24 | Yes | Company known for software development made famous by MS-DOS Windows and their anti-competitive behavior | |
| https://quora.com/ | N/A | Quora Inc. | Social Media | 2.49 MB | 176 kB | 57 | 13 | 12/22/24 | No | Get answers to questions maybe | |
| https://www.canva.com/ | N/A | Canva Inc. | A landing page | 1.62 MB | 1.70 MB | 77 | 87 | 12/22/24 | Yes | Graphic design tools | |
| https://www.aliexpress.com/ | N/A | Alibaba Group | Ecommerce | 3.69 MB * | 1.71 MB * | 236 * | 66 * | 12/22/24 | Sorta | Ecommerce platform known for cheap goods mainly from China | |
| https://www.paypal.com/ | N/A | PayPal Holdings Inc. | Payment Service | 1.58 MB | 359 kB | 53 | 12 | 12/22/24 | Sorta | A payment platform where you can send money to anyone anywhere | |
| htps://www.indeed.com/ * | N/A | Indeed Inc. | Job board | 2.38 MB | 142 kB | 129 | 15 | 12/22/24 | Yes | Job advertisement platform |
Bad sites
Download CSV| URL | Action | Author | Category | Size | Size w/o JS | Requests | Requests w/o JS | Captured | Note | Works w/o JS | Description |
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| https://www.youtube.com/ | N/A | Alphabet Inc. | Streaming Service | 3.14 MB * | 384 kB | 235 * | 14 | 12/22/24 | No | “Broadcast yourself” | |
| https://instagram.com/ | N/A | Meta | Social Media | 3.24 MB | 301 kB | 70 | 4 | 12/22/24 | No | Social media platform from Meta known for thirst-traps | |
| https://www.whatsapp.com/ | N/A | Meta | Communication | 6.53 MB | 6.14 MB | 59 | 31 | 12/22/24 | No | Encrypted communication platform known for Meta having the key to said encryption | |
| https://reddit.com/ | N/A | Reddit Inc | Social Media | 8.04 MB * | 2.98 MB * | 410 * | 44 * | 12/22/24 | Yes | Social media platform full of people that haven’t touched grass in years | |
| https://yahoo.com/ | Accepted cookies | Yahoo! Inc. | Does-it-all | 3.04 MB * | 836 kB | 157 * | 27 | 12/22/24 | Sorta | Originally famous for its search engine and website links now nobody knows what they do including themselves | |
| https://www.aol.com/ | N/A | Yahoo! Inc. | Does-it-all | 8.49 MB * | 1.77 MB * | 1038 * **** | 294 * | 12/22/24 | Very bad ¹⁰ | Sorta | They’re still around?? |
| https://amazon.com/ | N/A | Amazon.com Inc. | Ecommerce | 4.30 MB * | 1.46 MB * | 269 * | 141 | 12/22/24 | Sorta | Ecommerce platform known for customers returning a lot of the stuff they buy when drunk on a Wednesday night | |
| https://tiktok.com/ | N/A | Bytedance Ltd. | Social Media | 15.47 MB * | 62 kB | 356* | 2 | 12/22/24 | No | Idk something the kids do nowadays | |
| https://bing.com/ | N/A | Microsoft Corporation | Search Engine | 4.79 MB * | 294 kB | 414 * | 7 | 12/22/24 | Very bad ¹ | No | Search engine known for being the competitor to Google |
| https://twitch.tv/ | N/A | Twitch Interactive Inc. | Streaming Service | 6.18 MB * | 60 kB | 144 * | 3 | 12/22/24 | No | Live streaming service known for gamers getting cancelled and doxxed | |
| https://edition.cnn.com *** | N/A | Cable News Network | News | 13.11 MB * | 3.67 MB * | 240 * | 63 | 12/22/24 | Very bad ² | Yes | American news site |
| https://dzen.ru/ *** | N/A | Yandex LLC | Does-it-all | 9.95 MB * | 1.20 MB * | 288 * | 37 | 12/22/24 | Yes | Russian does-it-all site | |
| https://www.taboola.com/ | N/A | Taboola Inc. | Advertising / SEO | 13.28 MB | 4.36 MB | 124 | 74 | 12/22/24 | Very bad ³ | Yes | Advertising |
| https://weather.com/ | Accepted cookies | The Weather Company LLC | News | 13.13 MB * | 1.48 MB * | 873 * **** | 49 * | 12/22/24 | Very bad ⁴ | Yes | American weather news site |
| https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/outlook/ *** | N/A | Microsoft Corporation | 7.40 MB | 8.40 MB | 96 | 84 | 12/22/24 | Sorta | Mail service from Microsoft | ||
| https://www.naver.com/ | N/A | Naver Co. Ltd. | Does-it-all | 6.87 MB * | 515 kB | 248 * | 6 | 12/22/24 | No | South Korean does-it-all site | |
| htttps://www.office.com/ | N/A | Microsoft Corporation | Office suite | 24.45 MB **** | 23.99 MB **** | 56 | 32 | 12/22/24 | No | Office suite from Microsoft | |
| https://vk.com | N/A | VK | Social Media | 3.58 MB | 170 kB | 153 | 7 | 12/22/24 | No | Russian social media platform | |
| https://openai.com | N/A | OpenAI Inc. | A landing page | 528.21 MB **** | 131 MB **** | 259 | 100 | 12/22/24 | Very bad ⁶ | Yes | Company known for creating large language models using copyrighted material |
| https://www.pinterest.com/ | N/A | Pinterest Inc. | Social Media | 15.16 MB | 65 kB | 413 | 7 | 12/22/24 | No | Social media site focused on design and pictures? | |
| https://discord.com/ | N/A | Discord Inc. | Communication | 10.87 MB | 7.80 MB | 134 | 96 | 12/22/24 | Yes | Kids screaming into microphones or something | |
| https://github.com/ | N/A | GitHub Inc. | A landing page | 5.04 MB | 2.52 MB | 118 | 52 | 12/22/24 | Yes | Version control service originally made by Linus Torvalds now owned by Microsoft | |
| https://www.apple.com/ | N/A | Apple Inc. | A landing page | 6.26 MB | 1.75 MB | 56 | 27 | 12/22/24 | Yes | Company first known for its computers now known for expensive glass slabs | |
| https://www.globo.com/ | N/A | Globo Comunicação e Participações S.A | News | 8.40 MB | 4.55 MB | 410 | 83 | 12/22/24 | Very bad ⁷ | Yes | Portugese news site |
| https://open.spotify.com/ *** | N/A | Spotify Technology S.A. | Entertainment | 4.03 MB | 533 kB | 156 | 10 | 12/22/24 | No | Company known for making a music streaming service that cheats indies of their royalties | |
| https://www.roblox.com/ | N/A | Roblox Corporation | Entertainment | 2.62 MB | 268 kB | 170 | 33 | 12/22/24 | No | Idk something the kids do nowadays | |
| https://mail.ru | N/A | VK | Does-it-all | 10.71 MB | 317 kB | 368 | 33 | 12/22/24 | No | Russian mail service | |
| https://www.imdb.com/ | N/A | IMDb.com Inc. | Encyclopedia | 4.48 MB | 2.19 MB | 163 | 58 | 12/22/24 | Yes | The webs movie database known for giving good movies a low rating | |
| https://www.nytimes.com/ | Accepted cookies & agreed to terms | The New York Times Company | News | 5.25 MB | 2.43 MB | 208 | 82 | 12/22/24 | Yes | American news magazine | |
| https://www.marca.com/ | Accepted cookies | Unidad Editorial Información Deportiva S.L.U | News | 12.35 MB | 1.75 MB | 340 | 120 | 12/22/24 | Very bad ⁸ | Yes | Spanish sports magazine |
| https://www.bbc.om/ *** | Accepted cookies | British Broadcasting Corporation | News | 4.76 MB * | 2.12 MB * | 292 * | 49 * | 12/22/24 | Yes | British media organization | |
| https://www.espn.com/ | Accepted cookies | ESPN Enterprises Inc. | News | 14.62 MB * | 623 kB | 895 * **** | 66* | 12/22/24 | Very bad ¹¹ | Yes | American sports news |
| https://www.samsung.com/ | Accepted cookies | Samsung Group | A landing page | 11.16 MB | 659 kB | 249 | 20 | 12/22/24 | Yes | Electronics company known for bloated smartphones | |
| https://www.temu.com/ | Accepted cookies | Pinduoduo Inc. | Ecommerce | 4.43 MB * | 267 kB * | 396 * | 28 * | 12/22/24 | Sorta | Ecommerce platform known for Very cheap garbage | |
| https://www.booking.com/ | N/A | Booking Holdings Inc. | Travel agency | 5.19 MB | 1.22 MB | 221 | 64 | 12/22/24 | Yes | Flight hotel and other travel related booking service | |
| https://www.zoom.com/ | N/A | Zoom Communications Inc. | Communication | 5.34 MB | 336 kB | 153 | 14 | 12/22/24 | No | Video conferencing platform known for people transforming into cats | |
| https://www.uol.com.br/ | Accepted cookies | Universo Online S.A. | News | 6.13 MB * | 3.46 MB * | 429 * | 193 * | 12/22/24 | Yes | Brazilian news site | |
| https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ | Accepted cookies | Daily Mail and General Trust | News | 55.12 MB * | 9.82 MB * | 1459 * **** | 552 * **** | 12/22/24 | Very bad ¹² | Yes | British news magazine |
| https://www.dailymotion.com/ | Accepted cookies | Canal + S.A. | Streaming Service | 9.02 MB * | 116 kB | 190 * | 5 | 12/22/24 | No | French online video sharing platform |
Conclusions
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The more profit-driven a company / website is, the worse the website is. Highly ironic.
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Almost all websites deemed good works without JS.
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Descrepancy of higher "No JS" sizes may be because attempt to optimize loading using XHR / some JS framework.
Footnotes
“Sorta”: functionality / visibility limited
“Does-it-all”: All kinds of services such as blogs, shopping, info, search etc
* Content is dynamic / changes at reloads (news sites for example)
** Loads no JS
*** Redirected
**** Holy shit
¹ There’s no reason for a search engine to do 414 requests and load 4.79 MB of data at entry page
² There’s no reason for a news site to do 240 requests and load 13.11 MB of data
³ How ironic that a platform doing ads and SEO stuff have such a terrible landing page
⁴ I just wanna see the weather and it does 873 requests and loads 13.13 MB of data
⁵ This is just the landing page for Microsoft 365, don’t even wanna think about how much it loads when you enter the service
⁶ This is just a landing page for a company and they make me download over half a gigabyte of data, jesus christ
⁷ There’s no reason for a news site to do 410 requests
⁸ There’s no reason for a news site to do 340 requests and load 12.35 MB of data
⁹ If you pass cloudflare protection first
¹⁰ That’s a lot of requests…
¹¹ There’s no reason for a news site to do 895 requests and load 14.62 MB of data
¹² There’s no reason for a news site to do 1459 (!!) requests and load 55.12 MB of data
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