According to https://httparchive.org/reports/page-weight, the median weight in KB for web page tech on desktop:
Over the last 14.5 years:
HTML
2010: 20KB;
mid 2024: 33KB;
Increase of 65%.
Images
2010: 229KB;
mid 2024: 1,062KB;
Increase of 464%.
JavaScript
2010: 89KB;
mid 2024: 640KB;
Increase of 719%.
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Over the last 9 years:
Video
mid 2015: 173KB;
mid 2024: 3,872KB;
Increase of 2,238%.
I reckon that in the era of AI the JS gradient is gonna steepen significantly
