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Alternatively, think how much traffic a site could save itself if it allowed subscribing to webhooks on new content, or having a functional sitemap.xml to say n
by mdaniel 4y ago
Alternatively, think how much traffic a site could save itself if it allowed subscribing to webhooks on new content, or having a functional sitemap.xml to say nothing of the end-user experience of having fresh content
I would speculate (based on anecdata) that a lot of the actual load placed upon sites is from the discovery phase -- what pages are there, and have any of them changed -- not so much "hit this one endpoint and unpack its data"
- tasn 4y agoIt's an interesting idea to have a sort of a "what's up?" endpoint that is just basic text and tells you what's fresh. At least for static websites, it's quite easy to do.