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Not pulling in a ton of external javascript, images, and ads is probably the biggest, but one thing that helps is that most comment threads have a relatively lo
by justinsaccount 11y ago
Not pulling in a ton of external javascript, images, and ads is probably the biggest, but one thing that helps is that most comment threads have a relatively low number of comments. This page currently only pulls down down 12KB (compressed to 3.75KB).
A thread like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9976298 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9976298 with ~600 comments pulls down 785KB (compressed to 143KB)
In general, looking at the network tab in the developer tools will show why one site loads faster than another:
https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/network https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/network
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Network_Monitor https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Network_Monit...
- brownbat 11y agoCan someone buy the .text TLD already and make a whole part of the internet where this approach is standard?
- sokoloff 11y agoSorry for the offensive domain name (it's not mine), but this is relevant here: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
- noir_lord 11y agoI prefer http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ which was my inspiration for my blog design http://benlowery.co.uk/ http://benlowery.co.uk/ :)
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- rjdlee 11y agoThe red font on dark grey background you used is off-putting.
- marcosdumay 11y agoYou know, after 20 years of www, one'd think browsers would be able to competently format text files already. The fact that we need that small amount of css (instead of it just being available) means the web is still broken.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoCheck out Firefox reader view.
- acchan 11y agoThere should be a doctype declaration that automatically triggers this.
- bshimmin 11y agoOr, even better, mandatory.