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They'd take on the bandwidth load in order to provide better performance for their users! Maybe HN wouldn't bother, but I think, say, Reddit would do it if exp
by dfabulich 9y ago
They'd take on the bandwidth load in order to provide better performance for their users!
Maybe HN wouldn't bother, but I think, say, Reddit would do it if experiments showed that prerendering links resulted in higher engagement on Reddit. (And I bet it would; don't you agree?)
- JoshMnem 9y agoWouldn't that just give an advantage to large sites with tons of cash at the detriment of smaller, independent publishers? If hosting other websites increases the engagement on Site X, users might say, "getting my news on Site X is faster than getting my news on <small_independent_website>." You might be right, but something about it sounds off to me. We already have a working system. It's being abused by bad HTML/JS/CSS, but there are ways to fix it without unbalancing the open nature of the WWW.