Small organizations can't see what their website costs a visitor on a slow or metered connection.
People on slow or metered connections, and the small organizations whose websites they need
Where it stands
- Sourced (done)
- Kit (done)
- Wanted (next)
- Building
- Solved
How this problem came to be
- Found2 sourcesalmanac.httparchive.org, ised-isde.canada.ca
- Quoted4 claimseach checked against its page
- BriefWrittenand what solved looks like
- Market1 signals90% of households
- Kit5 steps22 tools · 6 routes
- People0 want0 live it · 0 would test
The problem, broken down
- Who it hurts
- Volunteers and staff who run websites for community groups, town councils and small businesses.
- The moment
- When someone outside a town on a capped mobile plan tries to load a notice and the page stalls.
- What people do today
- Audit tools report scores and milliseconds on a simulated phone, which many site owners can't turn into a decision.
- Why it's unsolved
- Page weight keeps growing, and most site owners never see it in terms of time or money for their own visitors.
- What solved looks like
- A free page where someone enters a web address and sees total download size, the cost at a per-GB rate they enter, load time at 5, 10 and 50 Mbps, and the three biggest files to fix first. Totals match browser developer tools within 10% on 10 real sites.
Evidence
Every claim is tied to the source it comes from- 1The 2025 Web Almanac reports the median mobile home page is 2.6 MB, up 8.4% from 2.4 MB in 2024.
- 2It reports a median of 646 KB of JavaScript on mobile pages.
- 3The Almanac notes that data is metered in many places and that heavier pages widen the gap for people on slower connections or low-end devices.
- 4The Government of Canada's target is high-speed internet for 98% of Canadians by 2026 and 100% by 2030; its page says more than 90% of households are connected so far.
Builders still need to know
Written from the cited sources. Anything they don't say is left as a question, not a guess.
Sources
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- [1]Government of Canada: High-speed Internet for all of Canada
- [2]HTTP Archive Web Almanac 2025: Page weight
What the source says, in short
The 2025 Web Almanac reports the median mobile home page is 2.6 MB, up 8.4% from 2.4 MB in 2024. It reports a median of 646 KB of JavaScript on mobile pages. The Almanac notes that data is metered in many places and that heavier pages widen the gap for people on slower connections or low-end devices. The Government of Canada's target is high-speed internet for 98% of Canadians by 2026 and 100% by 2030; its page says more than 90% of households are connected so far.
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- Government of Canada: High-speed Internet for all of Canada ↗Who it touches · High confidence90% of households“The Government of Canada's target is high-speed internet for 98% of Canadians by 2026 and 100% by 2030; its page says more than 90% of households are connected so far.”
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