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I want fastsitesthatdostuff.com. No blogs, no portfolios. Give me sites that actually do things, are quite tidy in size, and are blazing fast.

- https://www.webpagetest.org/ (322kB)

- https://gutenberg.org/ (298kB)

- https://archive.org/ (441kB) [chained JS modules means it's still slow however]

Any others?

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My SaaS landing page (https://healthchecks.io) doesn't do things by itself but it contains screenshots, integration logos, a little bit of JS. It was just over the 512KB threshold, I ran the PNG files through oxipng and got it to qualify :-)

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/healthchecks.io/qHMaqFXb/

You’re responsible for healthchecks.io? I found and started using it a few months ago to monitor some home backup tasks & a couple other simple jobs that I don’t care about unless they stop.

Thank you for the wonderful service & documentation. I wasn’t looking forward to setting up monitoring but your service actually made it a pleasure!

Yep, that's me. Happy to hear it is working well for you!

https://paint-xp.com/min.html

It's MS Paint from Windows XP, ~700 KB in size in a single HTML file. Source code available here: https://github.com/assemblylanguage/xp-paint

This is really cool, and so is Humble[0]! Thanks for sharing. You're even underselling things by not talking about gzipped sizes – a paltry 311kB. All that chunky base64 compresses pretty well, it seems :)

[0] https://github.com/assemblylanguage/humble

Hey thanks, glad you like these projects! Yeah you're right I was only looking at uncompressed size, add in some gzip and actual size through the network is even smaller.

Also glad you like humble, it's one of those side projects I get a lot of enjoyment out of developing and that I can get pretty creative with. You can do some interesting optimizations and modifications when the entire state of a web page is known in advance, and it's fun to look at some of these edge cases.

https://webperf.xyz maybe?

As a news site Rest of World is fast loading but because of lead image it can exceed 500KB in size depending on article.

https://restofworld.org/

> I want fastsitesthatdostuff.com. No blogs, no portfolios. Give me sites that actually do things, are quite tidy in size, and are blazing fast.

You want that, but most sites where people just read are big in many MBs. They are slow. That's the point, not sites doing stuff.

my site https://dotfilehub.com is on the list. It's a pretty simple web app but it does do something.

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