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Twitter is the slowest site of all the major sites that I visit (apart from HN). I often open individual twit links, and pretty much every time all I see is the
by rorrr 15y ago
Twitter is the slowest site of all the major sites that I visit (apart from HN). I often open individual twit links, and pretty much every time all I see is the blue cloud background. It easily takes 3 to 5 seconds to load the actual content. (I'm on an 8-Mbit connection, other sites work fine.)
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- hpaavola 15y agoOne tweet is more like 670 KB, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3667072 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3667072 Most numbers in that article are way off.
- omellet 15y agoThat's still waaay too much for a 140 character message and a thumbnail of the author, plus possible custom css.
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- amitparikh 15y agocreated_at, hashtags, user_mentions, favorited, geo, id, retweet_count, retweeted, source, text, truncated. That's just a small selection of the important elements delivered in the single tweet JSON packet. I didn't even get into the 'user' stuff, which is included so that all of the other fun things about the user can be displayed. (Note: this is using the web interface to Twitter, which is what I'm assuming the OP was implying)
- sp332 15y agoSmall correction: the first twitter page downloads ~2MB. Most of the images, JS, and CSS get cached, so every page after the first downloads much less data.
- naner 15y agoTwitter is slow for me too, but I don't see what this has to do with the discussion here. It seems like you're implying SPDY must be at fault, which doesn't seem likely. Also if you want to take advantage of SPDY, only Firefox 13 and Chrome/Chromium have it enabled by default.