Comment on A single tweet page is 2.0 MBparentComments−pavelkaroukin14yAnd it is funny - AJAX-related technologies were promoted exactly to make sites more lightweight and more responsive..−bergie14yYou could argue that Twitter is more responsive than it would be using server-generated HTML pages. But the initial app download is much bigger than it would be with that method.−5l14yWhat Twitter seem blissfully unaware of is that they've traded download speed for rendering speed on lower end devices.
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And it is funny - AJAX-related technologies were promoted exactly to make sites more lightweight and more responsive..
You could argue that Twitter is more responsive than it would be using server-generated HTML pages. But the initial app download is much bigger than it would be with that method.
What Twitter seem blissfully unaware of is that they've traded download speed for rendering speed on lower end devices.