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This new site is around 1MB, regular HN is around 50KB. They're not even close. It's just that navigating to new pages is faster since it doesn't take a full pa
by lucasmullens 9y ago
This new site is around 1MB, regular HN is around 50KB. They're not even close. It's just that navigating to new pages is faster since it doesn't take a full page refresh.
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- scottmf 9y agoWhich makes for a better user experience. What’s your point?
- sillysaurus3 9y agoNot really. Most of the point of HN is to navigate to it and then away from it (to other sites).
- scottmf 9y agoThe slightly higher upfront cost is only incurred once.
- sillysaurus3 9y agoWell, it's incurred each time you navigate away and then back to HN, which happens any time you click on a link on the front page, right?
- scottmf 9y agoBrowser cache
- mcgarnagle 9y ago@sillysaurus3 you can actually leverage browser caching as well.
- kuschku 9y agoCorrect, but so is commenting, loading comments, going back to the home page, etc. All these actions are a lot faster on that site than on real HN with Firefox Nightly on PC and mobile.