Earlier this month Doug Belshaw posted “Stick or twist?” and shared his work making minimal websites weighing in at under 512 KB and 1024 B. He was actually able to create an attractive profile page in 624 bytes, using emojis for flare.
Earlier this month Doug Belshaw posted “Stick or twist?” and shared his work making minimal websites weighing in at under 512 KB and 1024 B. He was actually able to create an attractive profile page in 624 bytes, using emojis for flare.
The requirements of 1024b.club are quite… stringent, shall we say. 1024 bytes is a single kilobyte. For those reading this who may be ‘less technical’, do you remember 3.5″ floppy disks? They stored 1.44 megabytes of information, which means (if my maths is correct) you could fit 1474 of these tiny websites on one of those disks. Wowzers. […] The great thing about emoji is that they’re Unicode, so don’t take up any more space than text. As a result, the page in the screenshot above, is a mere 624 bytes, so well underneath the 1KB limit. It’s the smallest website I’ve ever created. According to GTmetrix, it loads in 177 milliseconds!
In the remainder of the post he went on to share feedback and polls about the page and a larger one he had created, and elaborated on how he would incorporate elements of both.
