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How Wix improved website performance by evolving their infrastructure
- superkuh 6y agoNothing Wix does with their infrastructure will improve the performance of their "sites" when the default model is to load JS from one domain which then loads JS from another domain which then loads JS from another domain. It's at least 3 deep serial JS domain look-ups and tcp handshakes on all Wix "sites".
- bitwize 6y agoOkay, two paragraphs in and we're already into buzzword bingo. * "Leverage" as verb * KPIs * "Industry standards" * "Cloud" * "Performance-oriented culture" Is this hacker news or a presser for nontechnical suits? The rest of it doesn't look much more promising. Lots of numbers and graphs that indicate removing accreted webshit between the server and the user's eyeball improves performance, with a relative lack of awareness that maybe webshit is the problem. I'd bet that Wix (business model: Uber for GeoCities) could get much of these performance gains by simply saving the user's site as HTML and serving it as a static file.