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    Original Landing Page: 1.08MB (41KB transfer) / 1.50s / 11 requests
    Original Search: 1.90MB (55KB transfer) / 1.8s / 29 requests

    Lite Landing Page: 11KB (7.01KB transfer) / 335ms / 3 requests
    Lite Search: 35KB (6.85KB transfer) / 538ms / 4 requests

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2MB for the default .. even Google's seems to be about 1.5~2MB just from looking at my debug console.

I wonder how this compares to search engine landing pages back around 2000 or 2005; back when 1MB could take you a few minutes on dialup.

DDG Lite might be just the right size for 90s era sites.

> 2MB for the default .. even Google's seems to be about 1.5~2MB just from looking at my debug console.

Try Google in text browser, for example Links2[0]

    $ links2 https://google.com

[0] http://links.twibright.com

yandex.ru (Russian search engine) had a "lite" version at https://ya.ru for ages - 58K raw, 17K transferred, 1 request.

FTR, Yandex engine used by DDG[0]

> Hi Pär. Yandex is one of several sources we use for our results (see https://duck.co/help/results/sources ), but we don't collect or share any personal information with them, in line with our privacy policy: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy

[0] https://twitter.com/duckduckgo/status/999873625095319552

Sorry to nitpick, but I think you meant to use byte units (with a capital B), not bits (lower-case b).

Edited, thanks!

There's less stuff on the page, of course it'll be smaller/faster.

The point of his comment was to quantify the change.

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