A more efficient lightweight search engine

uzend

I would prefer a "lite" version of Kagi akin to lite.duckduckgo.com or Searxng

Kagi is 3.5x heavier than other popular private and anonymous search engines.

Amount of data transferred for the search term "test":
Kagi = 252.93kB
4get = 60.09kB
Searxng = 71.19kB

252.93/71= 3.5

Kagi is 3.5x heavier

Amount of data transferred for the home page:
Kagi = 133.13kB
4get = 39.87kB
Searxng = 44.83

133.13/44.83 = 2.9

kagi is 3x heavier

Does Kagi plan to implement a lite version for users?

This feature would improve loading speeds, network usage and reduce clutter for those that want a more focused searching experience.

tux0r

I have just noticed that I cannot use Kagi from w3m either, so I second this request. I'm sure that this is also rather bad for accessibility.

z64

tux0r That w3m issue seems unrelated; for some reason the request your client is making is tripping a security measure in our stack. Suggest opening a new ticket with details to reproduce; a quick test in lynx (what I had on hand) works fine. Support for this modality is "best effort", but it should at least be functional for text browsers.

Maybe a quick thing I could suggest is making sure that cookies are enabled. It's a total guess, but there are some security related cookies that we use that if not used properly (at all) may trigger a response like this. I know at least lynx is stuffy about using cookies by default. Login won't work anyways if cookies are not enabled for our domain.

flaxalf

tux0r I was able to 'steal' cookies from a Firefox session and use these to search using chawan

Numerlor

How are you measuring this? From the network tab in Edge I'm seeing only 158kB transferred in a private window, with favicon and some small 500 char svg cached and everything else going over the network

uzend

Numerlor I redid the test and got 171kB. I'm going to edit the original post. I believe there was something else on the page tainting the results

edit 1:
it changed from 171 to 252. There's quite a bit of variation
edit 2:
for anyone wondering how i originally got the 1.81MB figure it was because the kagi personalization help box tainted the results

tux0r

z64 Oh, I see. It probably won't make sense to report any issues with paranoid browsers - a few of my test systems will most likely trigger cookie-related trippings.

captivate4252

I would absolutely love for this to happen. Please add a "lite" search option for cli browsers and older machines.

tux0r

flaxalf TIL: chawan. Thank you.

flaxalf

David @ Kagi support pointed me to https://kagi.com/html/ without complex javascripting - it works well with chawan But I'd also vote for a lite site I could use with a dumbphone browser.