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My phone is literally struggling to even scroll through this page.

arcanemachiner 3y ago
Half the reason I keep my mid-range 2018 Android phone as a daily driver, is as a litmus test to see how poorly-optimized a website is. And this page is a very poor sales pitch in that regard.
- drowsspa 3y ago
  My phone is middle-tier but it is new. This website has probably the worst scrolling performance I've ever seen while using this phone. Can only imagine the dozens of megabytes of JS it is downloading once the "zero-JS part for SEO" is done.
- sph 3y ago
  And the result is total frustration, because everybody else is designing on their M2 Macbook, so everything is frustrating to use. I have an entry-level iPad from 2018 that crashes on most media-heavy websites, though I also blame Apple because it is obvious that every iOS release uses more and more RAM than the previous one. CPUs don't get slower as they age, but it certainly feels like it!
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resonious 3y ago
Same. Very ironic given how hard they're peddling speed.
jcalve 3y ago
I noticed the same, what's going on? Too much complex CSS?
starlevel003 3y ago
It doesn't even smoothly scroll on my desktop.
conradludgate 3y ago
I noticed the same on Firefox mobile, but Chrome worked better
eis 3y ago
Even on my Macbook with Firefox the site has a strange feel when scrolling. It's not exactly struggling but it feels unnatural and slightly off/slow/uneven. Like it's on the edge of struggling. Bit hard to describe. The effect gets worse towards the mid section of the page with the side scrolling logo circles. I removed that section via dev tools which helped with performance. When I have that part of the page in view I get 80-90% CPU usage of one core. But even after removing it I can saturate a core by scrolling around, especially towards the lower part of the page. It is indeed one of the worst optimized CSS I've seen in a while. Weird for a project that is all about speed.
pmontra 3y ago
Yes I came here to write that it scrolls atrociously. If people take the hint that this is how an Astro site performs, oops! The docs site from the Get Started link scrolls fine.
mlok 3y ago
Weird, for me it scrolls perfectly smoothly on Brave/iOS Iphone 8. I wonder where the difference lies ? (I intend to use Astro, so I'd better know beforehand)
Capricorn2481 3y ago
I have a phone from 2017 and I can't say this scrolls any worse than hackernews does. Certainly no issues on my new phone.
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Half the reason I keep my mid-range 2018 Android phone as a daily driver, is as a litmus test to see how poorly-optimized a website is. And this page is a very poor sales pitch in that regard.

drowsspa 3y ago
My phone is middle-tier but it is new. This website has probably the worst scrolling performance I've ever seen while using this phone. Can only imagine the dozens of megabytes of JS it is downloading once the "zero-JS part for SEO" is done.
sph 3y ago
And the result is total frustration, because everybody else is designing on their M2 Macbook, so everything is frustrating to use. I have an entry-level iPad from 2018 that crashes on most media-heavy websites, though I also blame Apple because it is obvious that every iOS release uses more and more RAM than the previous one. CPUs don't get slower as they age, but it certainly feels like it!
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resonious 3y ago

Same. Very ironic given how hard they're peddling speed.

jcalve 3y ago

I noticed the same, what's going on? Too much complex CSS?

starlevel003 3y ago

It doesn't even smoothly scroll on my desktop.

conradludgate 3y ago

I noticed the same on Firefox mobile, but Chrome worked better

eis 3y ago

Even on my Macbook with Firefox the site has a strange feel when scrolling. It's not exactly struggling but it feels unnatural and slightly off/slow/uneven. Like it's on the edge of struggling. Bit hard to describe. The effect gets worse towards the mid section of the page with the side scrolling logo circles. I removed that section via dev tools which helped with performance. When I have that part of the page in view I get 80-90% CPU usage of one core. But even after removing it I can saturate a core by scrolling around, especially towards the lower part of the page. It is indeed one of the worst optimized CSS I've seen in a while. Weird for a project that is all about speed.

pmontra 3y ago

Yes I came here to write that it scrolls atrociously. If people take the hint that this is how an Astro site performs, oops! The docs site from the Get Started link scrolls fine.

mlok 3y ago

Weird, for me it scrolls perfectly smoothly on Brave/iOS Iphone 8. I wonder where the difference lies ? (I intend to use Astro, so I'd better know beforehand)

Capricorn2481 3y ago

I have a phone from 2017 and I can't say this scrolls any worse than hackernews does. Certainly no issues on my new phone.

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