Questions regarding "Avoid enormous network payloads" audit

[tunetheweb]

This recently published article from DebugBear raises some questions.

• Is it possible to to "fail" this audit? Even when larger than the 4000 kilobytes median threshold of is this not relevant since it's an Audit.SCORING_MODES.INFORMATIVE?

• If not, we should update the docs:

To help surface the highest payloads, Lighthouse flags pages whose total network requests exceed 5,000 KiB.

This appears to be above the 2667 KiB p10 threshold not 5,000 KiB.

• Why not make it red when above the upper limit?

• What does "roughly equivalent to 'resources'" mean?

[adamraine]

Is it possible to to "fail" this audit? Even when larger than the 4000 kilobytes median threshold of is this not relevant since it's an Audit.SCORING_MODES.INFORMATIVE?

The audit should fail in this scenario, it only becomes informative when the byte weight is below the passing threshold. However, reading the article it seems like this "informative on pass" system is causing some confusion so I'm open to changing it and going back to "green+hidden on pass".

Why not make it red when above the upper limit?

The audit will appear orange but never red because it is mostly an information dump. There aren't any specific improvements that we can recommend that will necessarily improve CWV.

What does "roughly equivalent to 'resources'" mean?

This is a comment for translators. It is meant to give extra context to the word "Payload".