[HN Gopher] Critical Resources and the First 14 KB (2022)
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       Critical Resources and the First 14 KB (2022)
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 61 points
       Date   : 2024-09-10 14:02 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.tunetheweb.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.tunetheweb.com)
        
       | josephg wrote:
       | Separately from the content, this page loaded _instantly_ for me.
       | Its remarkable how good  / different the experience is compared
       | to 99% of websites out there.
        
         | ksp-atlas wrote:
         | It loads as fast as a raw basic html page, which is amazing
        
         | zootboy wrote:
         | Of course it did, it was less than 14 kB.
         | 
         | But in all seriousness, this sort of site is what I wish more
         | sites were like. No ridiculous JS rendering engine, or 11
         | billion AJAX requests to 3rd party servers, just simple HTML
         | and CSS.
        
           | recursive wrote:
           | There _were_ a total of 183 requests, many of them going to
           | things like disqus, facebook, webmention, google-analytics,
           | google accounts, and others.
        
             | aidenn0 wrote:
             | For me the page rendered before many of those things were
             | downloaded.
        
         | aidenn0 wrote:
         | It took almost a second for me; I used devtools and it was
         | about 200ms total for connection/TLS/download of the HTML
         | (which is in fact under 14k (a bit over 35k uncompressed)). But
         | then none of the assets (including the stylesheet) were queued
         | for download until after 900ms. Does it really take 700ms to
         | decompress and parse ~35k of HTML?
        
       | tosh wrote:
       | Somewhat related: when I have very flaky internet connection
       | hacker news is one of the few websites that still work. I guess
       | it has something to do with the response size?
        
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