15s vs 1s is only a factor of 15x, not 1000x. The load time of the oft-considered-bloated reddit.com for me is ~5s. Let's use that as a benchmark. If you told

15s vs 1s is only a factor of 15x, not 1000x. The load time of the oft-considered-bloated reddit.com for me is ~5s. Let's use that as a benchmark. If you told me you got reddit.com to load 1000x faster (5ms), then yes that is extraordinary. You're also missing the point of my 'apples-to-apples' caveat. A modern webpage might load slowly, but it also does a lot more than a static html one-pager. Sure you might not consider that to be useful, but those features (tracking, A/B testing, ads, redundancy, CDN, etc.) are useful to someone.