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to be fair the site is a html site only and gets served via cloudflare. not a fair metric against a "dynamic" site. also most webservers/frameworks/whatever wi
by merb 8y ago
to be fair the site is a html site only and gets served via cloudflare. not a fair metric against a "dynamic" site.
also most webservers/frameworks/whatever will favor throughput over latency.
- coder543 8y agoOk, what about Hacker News? But the article discusses news website like WaPo that really don't need to be very dynamic.
- Skunkleton 8y agoThis site is fast, why should I care how it got fast?
- pdpi 8y agodynamic sites are a choice, and achieving that richer level of interaction comes with its own costs. For every legitimately dynamic page out there (going all the way up to full-on applications), there’s many more that have no good reason to be anything other than static content that could be served from a cdn. Going pure html for a page that doesn’t need more is precisely the sort of design choice that goes with the mentality they’re advocating. Optimising for throughout rather than latency is, again, a design choice, and the article serves as an indictment of taking that too far.