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Took almost a minute to load. At first I thought HN effect, but then I realized it preloaded a lot more than just the front page. Edit: I played with it for a

Took almost a minute to load. At first I thought HN effect, but then I realized it preloaded a lot more than just the front page. Edit: I played with it for a bit, and wow. This is so cool. All the cool technology they use meshes seamlessly with content. Added this to my special bookmarks folder along with Statistics Done Wrong and Experimental Design (Norvig).

rurounijones 13y ago
They are going to lose a lot of people with load-times like that. Make the landing page quick and static and loads the minimum. After you have the visitors attention with the information on that page THEN the next page can take longer (Give them a warning) The bounce rate on this site must be incredible.