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Love how this person's blog itself consist of single HTTP requests per page load. No extra css, images, scripts, or anything! This blogger cares about web perf!

maratc 4y ago
And that single HTTP request is 9.5Kb in size. The guy seems to be practicing what he preaches!
- LoganDark 4y ago
  I am extremely impressed by this. I probably wouldn't have noticed if not for these comments, but the page loads in ~36 ms for me. That's blazingly fast. (Edit: it's 36 ms with a connection already open. From scratch, it's about 176 ms, still extremely impressive.)
jacooper 4y ago
Yup the speed was refreshing, refreshing from all the dumb news sites which take for ever to load.
- donohoe 4y ago
  Yeah, fast loading news sites are few. Here is a list to show how bad (and sometimes good) they get: https://webperf.xyz/ https://webperf.xyz/ I maintain this so let me know if any news sites I should add!
  - jacooper 4y ago
    Its not loading on my phone for some reason, but its working on my PC. I would suggest adding Al Jazzera.
  - byyll 4y ago
    https://nltimes.nl https://nltimes.nl
dont__panic 4y ago
Any recommendations for running a blog efficiently with posts that include images? I've cut my website down to some very basic styling, but since it's a personal blog, my picture is on the front page. That picture takes up more space than I'd like, but I feel like it's important for readers to see me on the front page. Maybe I should just remove it? But I still have a lot of blog posts that include multiple images, and I don't want to reduce them to tiny thumbnails -- they're nice photos!
- staindk 4y ago
  IMO if you want a personal pic on your blog it could make sense to move it to your About page. For actual blog posts/other content that contains pictures, it makes sense that those take up more space than 14kb - probably nothing to worry about there. If you can, it might be good to try ensure you load the images after other aspects (CSS, HTML text content) are loaded, per the blog post. But all in all it likely isn't a big issue.

maratc 4y ago

And that single HTTP request is 9.5Kb in size. The guy seems to be practicing what he preaches!

LoganDark 4y ago
I am extremely impressed by this. I probably wouldn't have noticed if not for these comments, but the page loads in ~36 ms for me. That's blazingly fast. (Edit: it's 36 ms with a connection already open. From scratch, it's about 176 ms, still extremely impressive.)

jacooper 4y ago

Yup the speed was refreshing, refreshing from all the dumb news sites which take for ever to load.

donohoe 4y ago
Yeah, fast loading news sites are few. Here is a list to show how bad (and sometimes good) they get: https://webperf.xyz/ https://webperf.xyz/ I maintain this so let me know if any news sites I should add!
- jacooper 4y ago
  Its not loading on my phone for some reason, but its working on my PC. I would suggest adding Al Jazzera.
- byyll 4y ago
  https://nltimes.nl https://nltimes.nl

dont__panic 4y ago

Any recommendations for running a blog efficiently with posts that include images? I've cut my website down to some very basic styling, but since it's a personal blog, my picture is on the front page. That picture takes up more space than I'd like, but I feel like it's important for readers to see me on the front page. Maybe I should just remove it? But I still have a lot of blog posts that include multiple images, and I don't want to reduce them to tiny thumbnails -- they're nice photos!

staindk 4y ago
IMO if you want a personal pic on your blog it could make sense to move it to your About page. For actual blog posts/other content that contains pictures, it makes sense that those take up more space than 14kb - probably nothing to worry about there. If you can, it might be good to try ensure you load the images after other aspects (CSS, HTML text content) are loaded, per the blog post. But all in all it likely isn't a big issue.