To truly wrap your head around the phenomenon of a 49 MB web page, let's quickly travel back a few decades. With this page load, you would be leaping ahead of the size of Windows 95 (28 floppy disks). The OS that ran the world fits perfectly inside a single modern page load. The problem is that upon page load, users are greeted by what I call Z-Index Warfare. Here is a teardown of a standard page load of Economic Times.