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This page took upwards of 20 seconds to allow me to scroll (or do anything) on the page. Shockingly bad performance. (just checked again in an incognito window
by mijoharas 6y ago
This page took upwards of 20 seconds to allow me to scroll (or do anything) on the page. Shockingly bad performance.
(just checked again in an incognito window, and counted 33 seconds).
I checked the network tab and weirdly it was downloading the same image over and over again. Very strange...
- mijoharas 6y agojust realised the redownloading images was to do with resizing the window. no idea what was stopping the page from allowing scrolling. (this was on desktop on a solid internet connection for context).
- black_puppydog 6y agoCame here for this. How did computing evolve to the point where in 2020 it takes half a minute to display some text & images and be able to scroll on the page?!
- kebman 6y agoAhaha, oh! At first I thought it was some artsy web page brick wall statement or something. Now that I clicked back, there's actually content too! Thank you revealing it for me. Weren't it for you, it'd probably just kept scrolling HN lol!
- minerjoe 6y agoI've recently swiched to using Links on the linux framebuffer as my primary browser. No javascript and a very fast HTML parser and graphics driver and I've been blown away at how much time I now save never waiting on a page load. The page in question took less than a half a second to fetch and completely render. On a circa 2006 ThinkPad (Core 2 1.85GHz).
- bzb3 6y agoIt loaded immediately here. Is your ad blocker properly configured?
- mijoharas 6y agoYep, both uBlock origin and privacy badger. Btw, loading the page finished after a couple of seconds, but scrolling wasn't possible for over 30s. I checked the performance metrics in chrome out of interest but couldn't figure out why.