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Off-topic but every time I open their site I am blown away by how fast their pages load. It's an absolute delight to navigate their blog.
by DarkCrusader2 9y ago
Off-topic but every time I open their site I am blown away by how fast their pages load. It's an absolute delight to navigate their blog.
- Tehchops 9y agoLooks like all their server-side stuff is coming from Heroku.
- cvsh 9y agoPretty annoying, though, that they hijack users' familiarity with the red dot to deliver the useless notification that "You are not logged in on this device".
- mtpn 9y agoIt's essentially an ad that gets you to click it by making you think you are somehow logged in on a site you don't have an account on. I emailed them about this because I think it's an awful pattern, and did get a response but not one that indicated they understood the problem with this deceptive marketing technique. It makes me avoid clicking links to dev.to.
- ronnier 9y agoOn my mobile so I can’t poke around... what did they do to make page loads so speedy? Even images seem to be quick.
- StavrosK 9y agoThey preload everything. They preload a post when you mouse over it, so it's mostly/completely down by the time you click. They also preload the current most popular posts, things like that.
- malikNF 9y agoNoticed they start loading content as soon as you hover your mouse over a link. Wonder what their server loads are like because of this.
- calibas 9y agoThey use Varnish for pages, and two CDNs (Fastly and Cloudinary) for everything else. Varnish is insanely fast, on my servers I can get page load times down to 1/3 of a second with it.