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I'd read this with a grain of salt. I remember looking at art.sy via the NYTimes link and thinking the site was terribly slow. I still find it moderately slow

I'd read this with a grain of salt. I remember looking at art.sy via the NYTimes link and thinking the site was terribly slow. I still find it moderately slow. I am not sure they really need mixpanel, google analytics, and kissmetrics, on every click and the api calls should take less than the 1-4 seconds I am seeing.

dblock 14y ago
dblock from Art.sy here. The analytics comment is totally fair - we spent a lot of time looking at all kinds of stats as we keep experimenting and it needs to be trimmed down to 1 (or none :)). Our average API response is 380ms. It's about 20x too long as far as I am concerned. It's not Heroku's fault to be fair, there's a mix of Ruby code, database queries and some not so easy to optimize math in some cases. It's definitely work in progress.
- mh- 14y ago
  my first (cold cache) load of the homepage took about 7-8 seconds to be usable but the rest feels fluid. don't be discouraged, after the initial load it performs better than most sites that look this nice.
  - dblock 14y ago
    Thanks for the kind words. We load 1GB of CSS and JS. OK, maybe I am exaggerating :) It's a constant struggle between "it looks and feels amazing" and "it's super fast".
- bigiain 14y ago
  I suspect I'm well outside your target demographic, but I'm seeing ~22 whole seconds to onload (according to Firebug) here in Sydney, Australia (as 52 requests comprising 1.6Meg of data.) That certainly seems excessive for a non-logged-in user on your main landing page.
  - dblock 14y ago
    China and Australia are the worst regions right now in terms of content delivery speed by a factor of 3. I suspect with a new AWS data center in Australia Cloudfront delivery will become better there soon, and we're looking at Akamai medium term.