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Please 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 o

Please 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 ago
Netlify 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 ago
  Congrats again on the funding. Your vision of a better web is inspiring. Wishing you and your team the best.
goshx 9y ago
Honestly curious, was it slow on your browser? The entire website is ridiculously fast for me.
- crazypyro 9y ago
  You 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 ago
  I 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 ago
The 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 ago
  Actually, 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 ago
    Is that because of the number of requests or a different reason though?

bobfunk 9y ago

Netlify 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 ago
Congrats again on the funding. Your vision of a better web is inspiring. Wishing you and your team the best.

goshx 9y ago

Honestly curious, was it slow on your browser? The entire website is ridiculously fast for me.

crazypyro 9y ago
You 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 ago
I 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 ago

The 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 ago
Actually, 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 ago
  Is that because of the number of requests or a different reason though?