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Just profiled the page via Chrome's "Fast 3G" network preset. I saw 3.5 MB download over 21 seconds before the spinner disappeared. The DOM content was ready at

Just profiled the page via Chrome's "Fast 3G" network preset. I saw 3.5 MB download over 21 seconds before the spinner disappeared. The DOM content was ready at 7.8 seconds – still far too long.

ColinCochrane 9y ago
I ran a performance audit from the Chrome dev tools: First meaningful paint: 8,820 ms First Interactive : 11,420 ms Those are brutal numbers for just about anything, let alone a simple blog post.
- yoodenvranx 9y ago
  Info like this should be automatically added as a flair right next to each submission on HN. Time to first interactive, download sizes, number of ads, ... This would actually be a nice side project. Throw each link which was submitted to HN at a headless Chrome/Firefox, do performance/ads/size analysis, save everything to a database and then make it available to the HN user through a browser plugin which adds this info next to each submission. And then you can even display badges of shame for the worst offender or block links and other stuff. Any takers?
  - jl6 9y ago
    This is why I always go to the comments on HN first. I can usually rely on the top comment to do one or all of the following: * neutralize clickbait * provide an instant endorsement (worth reading) or rebuttal (not) * warn of slow/heavy/ad-ridden user experience
- graysonk 9y ago
  Wow it got a 15/100 Pagespeed score on Mobile https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chrisbarra.xyz%2Fposts%2Flet-me-introduce-slots%2F&tab=mobile https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...