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Tumblr wins because it's twice as fast
- coachwei 16y agoDoes web performance matter? For Tumblr and other light blogging service providers, clearly it does and it made a big difference. A recent New York Times article pointed out that "Tumblr Leaves Posterous In the Dust". Both are leading light blogging service providers. However, Tumblr has out-grown Posterous significantly over the last year. Why? it looks like that one big reason is that Tumblr has been twice as fast as Posterous.
- bobds 16y agoTumblr would be even faster if their Javascript was a bit lighter. They use Prototype and various unneeded scripts.
- petervandijck 16y agoYes, but that's only loaded once and then cached, so it's not such a big deal.
- coachwei 16y agono, actually it does matter. Browser caching is not reliable and only covers around 20% to 25% of requests (according to GoogleMaps JS caching behavior stats). So it matters quite a bit.
- bobds 16y agoIt's not just about the requests. Some developers forget that not everyone has 8gb of RAM and a quad-core CPU. Those scripts add up and clog both memory and CPU time.
- petervandijck 16y agoReally? That's new to me.
- bbuffone 16y agohttp://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2007/01/04/performance-research-part-2/ http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2007/01/04/performance-research-... Towards the end of the article >> Suprising Results 40-60% of Yahoo!’s users have an empty cache experience and ~20% of all page views are done with an empty cache. To my knowledge, there’s no other research that shows this kind of information... <<
- pyrmont 16y agoThis is a terrible article. The bald assertion that Tumblr is more successful than Posterous because it is faster is repeated about a half dozen times during the piece but no evidence is ever advanced to prove this point. Without further data, at best, we're talking a correlation. I could similarly argue that dropping the 'e' in Tumblr is a 'big reason' Tumblr is more successful than Posterous (which, please note, contains an 'e'!).
- coachwei 16y agoDoes a fast site help improve business success(comparing to a slower site similar in functionality)? Of course it does. Does performance play a role? It does. Is it the only reason? No. The article does not pinpoint the success or failure of a business into a single reason. The article didn't claim "performance is The reason" that Tumblr is successful. It says "performance is most likely one of the key factors".
- awongh 16y agoI don't know about this... I use tumblr and it usually seems pretty slow to me... normally more than the 3sec load time they quote... haven't tried posterous yet....
- coachwei 16y agoGood point. Tumblr is a lot faster than Posterous. However, it is only at about 50 percentile comparing to other sites over the Internet while Posterous is below average - in other words, Tumblr's performance is only about average. Both have lots to be improved.
- jianjin 16y agoIt is really a good article. We have more and more sites on the internet but it seems become more and more slow because our web become too "complex".