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A little bit off topic : the axios website on mobile 4G loads quite instantly on my phone. Even better than most FANG websites. I'm not sure it's only the CDN d

A little bit off topic : the axios website on mobile 4G loads quite instantly on my phone. Even better than most FANG websites. I'm not sure it's only the CDN doing this. Any clue?

dieulot 6y ago
For as-fast-as-possible first time load, use TLS 1.3 + inline CSS + server close to user (with a CDN for global audiences) + not much JS (absolutely no 30kB framework). For as-fast-as-possible subsequent page loads, use preloading (à la instant.page) + light SPA. My previous library, InstantClick, did just that but it’s alas mostly just a proof of concept (lacks good docs), I intend to “reboot“ it this year and announce it on HN. FANG websites aren’t a very good site speed standard. :)
adventured 6y ago
It's modestly fast for how bloated it is, I'll grant them that. From Pingdom's Washington DC test location, on this Axios page: https://www.axios.com/tropical-storm-sally-forms-off-florida-coast-ab1e97df-99bf-4e21-93a8-b3f0bccda493.html https://www.axios.com/tropical-storm-sally-forms-off-florida... It rings in at 414ms, 1.9mb uncompressed (~1mb compressed), with a rather obnoxious 90 requests. They're loading 961kb of script and 197kb of font content. A whole 41kb of actual HTML content in that obese vat of bytes. On a small Quora page with no major images, they come in at 2mb of junk, 1500ms to load, with 79 requests. A typical small Wikipedia page with one image will come in at 400kb-500kb and load in 400-500ms, with 26 requests. GTMetrix lists the average load page size for their performance tests, compressed (!), at 3mb (with 89 requests). Framework bloat is like living on a sugar diet.
- minxomat 6y ago
  Thanks for using Pingdom btw. Always happy to see our products used in the wild
ffpip 6y ago
Axios loads off Google's servers. They serve only AMP pages. They don't have any non-amp servers If you log the requests, you can see that they load everything from ampproject.org

A little bit off topic : the axios website on mobile 4G loads quite instantly on my phone. Even better than most FANG websites. I'm not sure it's only the CDN doing this. Any clue?

dieulot 6y ago

For as-fast-as-possible first time load, use TLS 1.3 + inline CSS + server close to user (with a CDN for global audiences) + not much JS (absolutely no 30kB framework). For as-fast-as-possible subsequent page loads, use preloading (à la instant.page) + light SPA. My previous library, InstantClick, did just that but it’s alas mostly just a proof of concept (lacks good docs), I intend to “reboot“ it this year and announce it on HN. FANG websites aren’t a very good site speed standard. :)

adventured 6y ago

It's modestly fast for how bloated it is, I'll grant them that. From Pingdom's Washington DC test location, on this Axios page: https://www.axios.com/tropical-storm-sally-forms-off-florida-coast-ab1e97df-99bf-4e21-93a8-b3f0bccda493.html https://www.axios.com/tropical-storm-sally-forms-off-florida... It rings in at 414ms, 1.9mb uncompressed (~1mb compressed), with a rather obnoxious 90 requests. They're loading 961kb of script and 197kb of font content. A whole 41kb of actual HTML content in that obese vat of bytes. On a small Quora page with no major images, they come in at 2mb of junk, 1500ms to load, with 79 requests. A typical small Wikipedia page with one image will come in at 400kb-500kb and load in 400-500ms, with 26 requests. GTMetrix lists the average load page size for their performance tests, compressed (!), at 3mb (with 89 requests). Framework bloat is like living on a sugar diet.

minxomat 6y ago
Thanks for using Pingdom btw. Always happy to see our products used in the wild

ffpip 6y ago

Axios loads off Google's servers. They serve only AMP pages. They don't have any non-amp servers If you log the requests, you can see that they load everything from ampproject.org