The median AI tool homepage ships 177 KB of HTML before anything else loads
We measured the HTML document of all 701 listings — not the images, not the scripts they pull in, just the markup. 114 are over half a megabyte, 35 are over a megabyte, and the heaviest is 2.7 MB. Compression hides it from you and not from the browser.
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