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Is it just me or does Medium have really poor performance for a site that only delivers text and one image in this case? Edit: This article scores a lighthouse

Is it just me or does Medium have really poor performance for a site that only delivers text and one image in this case? Edit: This article scores a lighthouse score of 23 out of 100, wow [1] And get this: Loading the article through Scribe, an alternative unofficial Medium frontend [3], scores 97 [2] [1] https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscribe.rip%2Ftesla-begins-building-a-next-generation-model-y-chassis-6b2e1579d0aa https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscribe.ri... [2] https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscribe.rip%2Ftesla-begins-building-a-next-generation-model-y-chassis-6b2e1579d0aa https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscribe.ri... [3] https://scribe.rip https://scribe.rip / https://github.com/digitalblossom/alternative-frontends https://github.com/digitalblossom/alternative-frontends

xmorse 5y ago
If you are searching for a Medium alternative to host your blog check out Notaku [0], it can create a blog sites (also docs sites) from Notion content [0] https://notaku.website https://notaku.website
- natdempk 5y ago
  Probably worth mentioning you are the creator of this site?
websap 5y ago
Why is this the top comment, this has nothing to do with what the article is about?
- stefan_ 5y ago
  The article is blogspam, so might as well complain about Medium.
- nvr219 5y ago
  Because it’s important to remind people that medium is not good.
  - JPKab 5y ago
    I wish I could find a way to agree with you that doesn't involve profanity. But here it is: Fuck medium. I absolutely despise it. Every time I Google for data science techniques I'm inundated with god-awful medium articles and sometimes good medium articles but the paywall is just so stupid. Typically I end up finding the exact same post from the exact same author duplicated on another site. It represents to me a huge degradation of the spirit of the world wide web as envisioned by Tim Berners-Lee. And yes there are many other sites that also represent this degradation such as Facebook and yes I hate them as well.
    - kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
      Just block their JS. The content survives.
    - davnn 5y ago
      Does anyone have an idea why Medium articles are ranked so well on Google?
- comboy 5y ago
  Why is a good question. But its usually complex enough to discourage chasing answer which is anywhere near the truth. The ultimate answer is the Universe, simplified version takes into account only brains of people who upvoted which is also unapproachable. So we settle for stories. Ones that are believable. Say this comment allows us to participate in the discussion without reading the article, because it has nothing to do with it. You of course open comments first, and there it is, comment about Medium (hey I know something about Medium!), which doesn't touch article - great because I have no idea what's in it. But most whys have uninterestingly many answers. We would love to just get the "main" reason. But how do you differentiate them? Say I commented because I felt like typing but also because I have Internet access. How do you assign weights to those? Another story reason - it's tech. We do tech. You can't escape the fact that once you have sophisticated patterns associated with something you perceive them. Ornithologist walk through the park is not the same as mine. And psychologist's social interactions are.. different. Also, why why? How many top comments are directly related to the article and not general topic in vicinity of it? Is it enough of an outlier to be interesting or is your model wrong? Why did I type all this.
- dang 5y ago
  Indignation and fault-finding routinely get upvoted. It seems rooted in human nature (or at least factors beyond our control), so the only thing that seems to work is for moderation to act as a countervailing mechanism, e.g. by downweighting such subthreads. I've done that to the GP now. It's also why we added this site guideline: "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
yawaworht1978 5y ago
I get, on Android mobile in chrome : First Contentful Paint (FCP) 2.1 seconds, it's ok scores 99 points. For the medium url I get First Contentful Paint 3.1 s Time to Interactive 18.5 s Speed Index 9.7 s Total Blocking Time 6,160 ms Horrible. Reduce unused JavaScript and defer loading scripts until they are required to decrease bytes consumed by network activity. Even main.js is guilty. 1.9s there. Serve images in next-gen formats 1.8 s And very interesting, why does the following happen. Avoid multiple page redirects 1.56 s Reduce the impact of third-party code Third-party code blocked the main thread for 5,660 ms Minimize main-thread work 15.7 s Reduce JavaScript execution time 12.3 s Wow
dang 5y ago
"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- schleck8 5y ago
  I think it's very interesting that a proxied version of the site is 4 times more performant than the original
  - dang 5y ago
    Even so, that doesn't really belong at the top of an unrelated thread. (I posted a similar explanation earlier today if anyone cares: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29857585 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29857585)

xmorse 5y ago

If you are searching for a Medium alternative to host your blog check out Notaku [0], it can create a blog sites (also docs sites) from Notion content [0] https://notaku.website https://notaku.website

natdempk 5y ago
Probably worth mentioning you are the creator of this site?

websap 5y ago

Why is this the top comment, this has nothing to do with what the article is about?

stefan_ 5y ago
The article is blogspam, so might as well complain about Medium.
nvr219 5y ago
Because it’s important to remind people that medium is not good.
- JPKab 5y ago
  I wish I could find a way to agree with you that doesn't involve profanity. But here it is: Fuck medium. I absolutely despise it. Every time I Google for data science techniques I'm inundated with god-awful medium articles and sometimes good medium articles but the paywall is just so stupid. Typically I end up finding the exact same post from the exact same author duplicated on another site. It represents to me a huge degradation of the spirit of the world wide web as envisioned by Tim Berners-Lee. And yes there are many other sites that also represent this degradation such as Facebook and yes I hate them as well.
  - kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
    Just block their JS. The content survives.
  - davnn 5y ago
    Does anyone have an idea why Medium articles are ranked so well on Google?
comboy 5y ago
Why is a good question. But its usually complex enough to discourage chasing answer which is anywhere near the truth. The ultimate answer is the Universe, simplified version takes into account only brains of people who upvoted which is also unapproachable. So we settle for stories. Ones that are believable. Say this comment allows us to participate in the discussion without reading the article, because it has nothing to do with it. You of course open comments first, and there it is, comment about Medium (hey I know something about Medium!), which doesn't touch article - great because I have no idea what's in it. But most whys have uninterestingly many answers. We would love to just get the "main" reason. But how do you differentiate them? Say I commented because I felt like typing but also because I have Internet access. How do you assign weights to those? Another story reason - it's tech. We do tech. You can't escape the fact that once you have sophisticated patterns associated with something you perceive them. Ornithologist walk through the park is not the same as mine. And psychologist's social interactions are.. different. Also, why why? How many top comments are directly related to the article and not general topic in vicinity of it? Is it enough of an outlier to be interesting or is your model wrong? Why did I type all this.
dang 5y ago
Indignation and fault-finding routinely get upvoted. It seems rooted in human nature (or at least factors beyond our control), so the only thing that seems to work is for moderation to act as a countervailing mechanism, e.g. by downweighting such subthreads. I've done that to the GP now. It's also why we added this site guideline: "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

yawaworht1978 5y ago

I get, on Android mobile in chrome : First Contentful Paint (FCP) 2.1 seconds, it's ok scores 99 points. For the medium url I get First Contentful Paint 3.1 s Time to Interactive 18.5 s Speed Index 9.7 s Total Blocking Time 6,160 ms Horrible. Reduce unused JavaScript and defer loading scripts until they are required to decrease bytes consumed by network activity. Even main.js is guilty. 1.9s there. Serve images in next-gen formats 1.8 s And very interesting, why does the following happen. Avoid multiple page redirects 1.56 s Reduce the impact of third-party code Third-party code blocked the main thread for 5,660 ms Minimize main-thread work 15.7 s Reduce JavaScript execution time 12.3 s Wow

dang 5y ago

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

schleck8 5y ago
I think it's very interesting that a proxied version of the site is 4 times more performant than the original
- dang 5y ago
  Even so, that doesn't really belong at the top of an unrelated thread. (I posted a similar explanation earlier today if anyone cares: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29857585 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29857585)