You’ve got that the wrong way. It’s <1mb. Just read the less than symbol out loud.
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fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months agoNah that’s not it. The text content is an infinitesimal portion of a modern Web page.
Many webpages are > 1mb, that’s a million letters if you will.
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Goudewup@feddit.nl 4 months ago
No, many web pages are larger than 1mb.
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Oh yeah I misunderstood what they were saying my bad
Vlyn@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Articles usually have images and possibly embedded videos. So it’s not just text.
Even so, a decent webserver wouldn’t really care.
Maybe it loads faster for mobile users though if you only load text and a single image at first.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
I’m not sure what you’re getting at.
The comment I replied to said that maybe the “read more” button is an effort to conserve bandwidth by only sending half the text.
I said that the text is such a tiny portion of the bandwidth required to transmit a web page that it wouldn’t make sense to try conserving it by only sending half.
You’re absolutely correct in that only sending images on the visible part of the page is a common way to conserve bandwidth.