"I just got a notification from a site I belong to, telling me that some of the links in my profile are "broken" and "thus have been removed". The evidence that these sites are broken? They are too small: https://www.djangoproject.com/: response body too small (6220 bytes) https://www.cciw.co.uk/: response body too small (3033 bytes) The first is, obviously, the home page of the Django web framework, and is, unsurprisingly, implemented using Django (see the djangoproject.com source code)."
"Checking in webdev tools on these sites gives very similar numbers to the above for the over-the-wire size of the initial HTML (though I get slightly higher figures), so this wasn't a blip caused by downtime as far as I can see. Apparently, if your HTML is less than 7k, that obviously can't be a real website, let alone something as ridiculously small as 3k."
A site notification removed profile links, labeling them as broken because response body sizes were under a configured threshold. The Django homepage returned 6220 bytes and another project returned 3033 bytes. Both sites are served by Django. Browser developer tools reported similar over-the-wire HTML sizes, indicating the sizes were not caused by transient downtime. The validator equates small HTML responses with broken sites, leading to requests to inflate response sizes so links qualify as real websites.
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