The thumbnail.
Indeed here we see in the Kiwi browser the Developer Tools results,
Yes, we’re talking at 500 kilobyte thumbnail.
What would Tim Berners-Lee think?
Okay, I did a web search and indeed it’s a reasonable size for a thumbnail – if you are uploading it to YouTube.
I mean it must be a pretty fantastic hologram 50 dimensional thumbnail or something. Are you sure you couldn’t do the same one about 5000 bytes? Would the user be able to detect any difference? No I’m not blaming anybody for the energy crisis or slowing down the web. I just think with the destination being a small cellphone something could be done better.
I mean there has to be some point where just adding more bytes, no matter what cellphone sized device they have, won’t make any difference for human beings unless they have eagle eyes but they’re not eagles they’re humans.