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About 50 KB per page, including graphics. Yeah, those pages are HTML 2 or 3 with CSS None, but it's just as easy to redo in HTML 5 with CSS 3 while keeping the same presentation, improving accessibility, and not bloating beyond about 50 KB per page, including CSS and graphics.

This was the World Wide Web we threw away for browser-heavy frameworks.