Misleading claim in README.md?

[hulkish]

In the README.md of this project, it claims:

Distroless images are very small. The smallest distroless image, gcr.io/distroless/static-debian11, is around 2 MiB. That's about 50% of the size of alpine (~5 MiB), and less than 2% of the size of debian (124 MiB).

However, with a few commands this proves false:

$ docker pull node:20-alpine3.19
[...]
$ docker pull gcr.io/distroless/nodejs20-debian12:latest
[...]
$ docker images
REPOSITORY                            TAG             IMAGE ID       CREATED      SIZE
node                                  20-alpine3.19   a19a63a9d2e8   2 days ago   135MB
gcr.io/distroless/nodejs20-debian12   latest          7f4c94da2e88   N/A          181MB

So, this actually suggests that alpine impl of node is about 29% smaller than distroless impl of node. I understand that the above statement is accurate.... however it is misleading because in implementation - alpine in this case is actually smaller.

Am I missing something here?

[loosebazooka]

This claim is specifically about the static images. But also this claim has not been verified in many years. If you find that distroless/static isn't smaller than alpines smallest image, then sure we can update the README. Please re-open if you feel this needs an update.

[hulkish]

This claim is specifically about the static images. But also this claim has not been verified in many years. If you find that distroless/static isn't smaller than alpines smallest image, then sure we can update the README. Please re-open if you feel this needs an update.

I just think that if a comparison statement is being made... then it should be more revealing and elaborate that it is not always consequently smaller, as detailed above