OK there are more but these are little bits to remember. To make it even easy, I’m testing my designs in firefox with the Html Validator extension that shows me how valid is the current page and points out the errors.

“Anyone can use their own overriding design with IE or FireFox”.
Your word “overriding” here means ability to CHANGE it a little bit (e.g., font size, color; in short - stylesheet). While I’m talking about opportunity to REPLACE it with anything I want! Including (or not including) your advertising.

“Actually, 220K in today’s web pages is tiny”.
Nevertheless, I would prefer to open 6K of your text instead ! Although you are not in Ukraine, you used to say you’re on mobile connection. So, you could benefit from faster download too! BTW, my webpages are under 10K.

It might sound high and mighty to some — it really isn’t, just the opposite (humility in that I’m not any better than anyone else and haven’t earned the right to put down a fellow human) — but I try to hold myself to a stricter standard. I believe in the Golden Rule both on and offline.

But the way I see it, someone who genuinely asks for help and doesn’t cop an attitude never deserves to be treated harshly. If I don’t have time to help them, I’ll try to point them in the direction of someone who can — and I’ll do it nicely. Or I won’t do it at all. (There’s that other pesky but entirely correct little rule Mom passed down…)

Actually, 220K in today’s web pages is tiny. What you are adding up is not code, nor is it just text. It is the size of the images, and I have very few images and keep them very small, and the front page with 15 posts displayed, most of them full text pageviews, is not an equal opportunity example, nor relative to every page on my site. It’s just the front page. Proportion is as important as perspective.

Also, with WordPress sites, if you strip out the content, there is very little code to sift through. Spelling is not checked by HTML validators.

Of all the blogging services, WordPress.com is the least bloated. I also don’t understand your last paragraph. Anyone can use their own overriding design with IE or FireFox, especially if they have vision issues, which is the mark of a well designed website to permit such abilities in compliance with web standards for accessibility. Content and format (architecture) are required web standards for web design, of which all WordPress Themes should comply with.

How your current post, which is about 6 Kb of text, has “landed” on a webpage with HTML source code of 60 Kb, — and the total size over 220 Kb?!!

Formatting code should NOT exceed main content in such proportions!
Have you looked under the hood of your lovely WordPress (no doubt, - one of the best in the industry)! And you are telling us about possible errors on other websites?
It’s quite easy to check for misspellings a few paragraphs of these comments (hopefuly, i’ve made less than 250 errors :). But debugging several HUNDREDS Kb of computer code looks a slightly more time consuming task…
However, I understand that discussing the “honest truth” about popular, yet hugely *bloated* blogging services might be off the topic here. So, for now I would recommend the following.

Let webpage’s visitors using their own HTML design:
Distribute Content and Formatting SEPARATELY!
See my website as a live demo for this idea:
http://Mini-News.com/concepts/mini-sharing

Yes, thank you. These are the responsibly of WordPress.com and they have been reported. I have no control over the architecture of WordPress.com and their Themes.

The number of errors, which are minor, my site has is not the point of the post. I hope you got the point.