LinkedIn Uses 2.4 GB of RAM Across Two Tabs. We All Just Shrugged.

LinkedIn is using 2.4 GB of RAM across two tabs. Two tabs. Not twenty. Two. A Hacker News thread over the weekend hit 600+ points as developers shared their horror stories. One person saw a single LinkedIn tab at 3.2 GB while every other tab sat under 200 MB. One watched its memory climb to 42 GB, traced to a third-party bot prevention service merrily running in the background. And you know what? Nobody was surprised. That's the problem. We Have Normalized This The median web page now ships 780 KB of JavaScript according to HTTP Archive data from February 2026. That's up from 540 KB just a couple of years ago — a 44% increase. The median page itself weighs 2.2 MB and fires off 24 JavaScript requests before it even renders. But it's the edges that are truly absurd. One major news site was caught serving 49 MB of data for four headlines. That's roughly the size of Windows 95. Loading it required 422 network requests and took two full minutes. We Got Here on Purpose This isn't a bug. This