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To be fair, 14.4MB of that is images (I don't know why some of them are that large, however). Does their offering specifically have something related to image o
by mipmap04 9y ago
To be fair, 14.4MB of that is images (I don't know why some of them are that large, however). Does their offering specifically have something related to image optimization / scaling (I'm unfamiliar with Netlify)?
- _fool 9y agodisclaimer: I work for netlify. We do have image optimization built-in but it won't change images' size (in case you link externally - we don't want to move your cheese) or do anything lossy. So - we have not resized and chosen optimal formats for those images and we are working on doing it right now :)
- alberth 9y agoPlease note I am truly rooting for you guys to make the web a better place. But it's not just the blog I linked to above that's slow, it's even the blog post of this very HN post. https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.netlify.com/KdCXA8bB https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.netlify.com/KdCXA8bB 54 http request (26 of which are JS) just seems kind of nuts for a blog post. Not trying to make you guys look bad. But clearly asset merging and image optimization are needed.
- bobfunk 9y agoNetlify as a service doesn't really affect how you do things as a front-end developer, but we do help make sure that all those assets get to your browser as fast as can be. But yes, we all agree that we should do a better job of making our website leaner and we do have a bunch of changes planned around that (and we're hiring!).
- alberth 9y agoCongrats again on the funding. Your vision of a better web is inspiring. Wishing you and your team the best.
- goshx 9y agoHonestly curious, was it slow on your browser? The entire website is ridiculously fast for me.
- crazypyro 9y agoYou mentioning this made me go and check it out myself and I got to say the page loads are very quick to the natural eye on my connection, FWIW. I would recommend other people check it out themselves as well. I compared it to apple.com (since someone mentioned it in a lower comment) and apple.com had noticeable page loads whereas Netlify's blog didn't.
- andruby 9y agoI am abroad on a slow 3G connection while nsurlsessiond is eating my bandwidth and the site was extremely slow (took more than a minute to load), while HN loads in 2~3s. I'm sure the site is fast on a regular connection though.
- seanwilson 9y agoThe number of HTTP requests is not a big deal now with HTTP2. See here where it's no longer recommended to concatenate JS files: https://blog.cloudflare.com/http-2-for-web-developers/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/http-2-for-web-developers/ Is YSlow (which warns about too many HTTP requests) still updated? There's been no updates for 3 years here: https://github.com/marcelduran/yslow https://github.com/marcelduran/yslow
- dougfinley 9y agoActually, Netlify site performs WORSE using http2. See the comparison: https://www.dareboost.com/en/comparison/598b93730cf2aac95f7549c7/598b93730cf2aac95f7549c8/ https://www.dareboost.com/en/comparison/598b93730cf2aac95f75...
- seanwilson 9y agoIs that because of the number of requests or a different reason though?
- dakom 9y agoHah, I read "Who Moved My Cheese?" a while ago but I haven't seen it used as an idiom like this. Nice one!
- late2part 9y agoonly 600kb of text on a landing page? That's about the same size as _Walden_ by Thoreau. Seems large. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/205/205-0.txt https://www.gutenberg.org/files/205/205-0.txt
- _fool 9y agoThis is definitely the most flattering insult we received in this thread ;)