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Why does Twitter have a four to five second delay before showing anything? It should be ten milliseconds.

Gustomaximus 4y ago
While probably a rhetorical question. GT Metrix is a good site to answer - see the waterfall view: https://gtmetrix.com/ https://gtmetrix.com/ Also right click and inspect on your browser.
- tuatoru 4y ago
  About one-third rhetorical. Good answers for what to do about it in sibling replies, though.
bushbaba 4y ago
Probably the 1000ms!!! it takes for the GraphQL on tweets to respond. Ooph.
pizza 4y ago
Do you have a "More tweets" section under the main tweet? I have one, and I imagine that that is both generated on-the-fly and tailored to my browsing behavior. So it probably interrogates a larger system, adding latency. I'd bet as well that there is some fetching of 'live' quote/retweet/like counts, that probably occurs in some kind of interval.
ripley12 4y ago
Not sure, but I've been experiencing dramatically worse load times on Twitter in the last month or so.
nine_k 4y ago
While at it, have you tried nitter.net? It's very handy for opening twitter links on mobile, where I want things to be lightweight.
throwaway_au_1 4y ago
The only Twitter exposure I have is via HackerNews and that bothered the crap out of me too, so I wrote a dead-simple userscript that is run with ViolentMonkey in Chrome to take me to Nitter instead. The redirect and page load all completes before I would probably even see the loading spinner on Twitter. What a garbage site. https://pastebin.com/ZpgYYF1N https://pastebin.com/ZpgYYF1N
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lordgrenville 4y ago
Yeah, it's really painful. +1 to all the Nitter recommendations. I use Invidition (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/invidition/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/invidition/) to redirect (Twitter, YouTube) -> (Nitter, Invidious). It also can automatically pick the fastest responding instance, which makes a noticeable difference. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/invidition/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/invidition/
- Qub3d 4y ago
  FYI, the description of that addon says its unmaintained: "PLEASE READ THIS FIRST ! Invidition is now deprecated and is no longer maintained. Please, use Privacy Redirect by Simon Brazell instead." https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir...
jonas-w 4y ago
Can only recommend libredirect https://libredirect.github.io/ https://libredirect.github.io/

While probably a rhetorical question. GT Metrix is a good site to answer - see the waterfall view: https://gtmetrix.com/ https://gtmetrix.com/ Also right click and inspect on your browser.

tuatoru 4y ago
About one-third rhetorical. Good answers for what to do about it in sibling replies, though.

bushbaba 4y ago

Probably the 1000ms!!! it takes for the GraphQL on tweets to respond. Ooph.

pizza 4y ago

Do you have a "More tweets" section under the main tweet? I have one, and I imagine that that is both generated on-the-fly and tailored to my browsing behavior. So it probably interrogates a larger system, adding latency. I'd bet as well that there is some fetching of 'live' quote/retweet/like counts, that probably occurs in some kind of interval.

ripley12 4y ago

Not sure, but I've been experiencing dramatically worse load times on Twitter in the last month or so.

nine_k 4y ago

While at it, have you tried nitter.net? It's very handy for opening twitter links on mobile, where I want things to be lightweight.

throwaway_au_1 4y ago

The only Twitter exposure I have is via HackerNews and that bothered the crap out of me too, so I wrote a dead-simple userscript that is run with ViolentMonkey in Chrome to take me to Nitter instead. The redirect and page load all completes before I would probably even see the loading spinner on Twitter. What a garbage site. https://pastebin.com/ZpgYYF1N https://pastebin.com/ZpgYYF1N

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lordgrenville 4y ago

Yeah, it's really painful. +1 to all the Nitter recommendations. I use Invidition (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/invidition/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/invidition/) to redirect (Twitter, YouTube) -> (Nitter, Invidious). It also can automatically pick the fastest responding instance, which makes a noticeable difference. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/invidition/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/invidition/

Qub3d 4y ago
FYI, the description of that addon says its unmaintained: "PLEASE READ THIS FIRST ! Invidition is now deprecated and is no longer maintained. Please, use Privacy Redirect by Simon Brazell instead." https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir...

jonas-w 4y ago

Can only recommend libredirect https://libredirect.github.io/ https://libredirect.github.io/