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>Websites that are Just Text On A Page should load fast, but many don't. Hacker News is blazing fast, but Google's API docs never load. Things aren't always th
by daveoc64 2y ago
>Websites that are Just Text On A Page should load fast, but many don't. Hacker News is blazing fast, but Google's API docs never load.
Things aren't always that simple.
I'm in the UK, and my ping time to news.ycombinator.com is 147ms - presumably because it's not using a CDN and is hosted in the USA.
cloud.google.com on the other hand has an 8ms ping time.
So yes, Hacker News is a simple, low-JS page - but there can be other factors that make it feel slow for users in some places.
This is despite me being in a privileged situation, having an XGS-PON fibre connection providing symmetric 8Gbps speeds.
- toast0 2y agoI have experience with having a webpage with a global audience, served from random US locations (east/west/texas, but no targetting) and pretty unbloated, to something served everywhere with geodns and twice the page weight... Load times were about the same before and after. If we could have kept the low bloat, I expect we would have seen a noticable improvement in load times (but it wasn't important enough to fight over)
- Sesse__ 2y agoHN loads quickly for me _despite_ the 147 ms. I guess partially because it doesn't need 20 roundtrips to sent useful content to me. At some point, I wrote a webapp (with one specific, limited function, of course) and optimized it to the point where loading it required one 27 kB request. And then turned up the cwnd somewhat, so that it could load in a single RTT :-) Doesn't really matter if you're in Australia then, really.