Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

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Post by dieulot » Sat, Feb 09, 2019, 3:30 PM UTC

Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute
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Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

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Post by akras14 » Sat, Feb 09, 2019, 4:01 PM UTC

Sounds too good to be true, but also brilliant. Curious what others think. What are the downsides?

Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

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Post by dieulot » Sat, Feb 09, 2019, 4:04 PM UTC

akras14 wrote: post #2

Sounds too good to be true, but also brilliant. Curious what others think. What are the downsides?

Thanks. The only downside is that you can expect twice the number of requests to your pages (only the pages themselves, not their assets).

Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

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Post by lallysingh » Sat, Feb 09, 2019, 4:04 PM UTC

dieulot wrote: post #3

akras14 wrote: post #2

Sounds too good to be true, but also brilliant. Curious what others think. What are the downsides?

Thanks. The only downside is that you can expect twice the number of requests to your pages (only the pages themselves, not their assets).

And you're using a lot more of the users'bandwidth

Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

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Post by jypepin » Sat, Feb 09, 2019, 4:04 PM UTC

This is a feature available on most web frameworks today (for example Link's prefetch on Next.js), but still could be very useful for smaller website and other static pages not using such frameworks.

I'd be a little wary of using a script from an unknown person without being able to look at the code - I'd rather see this open source before using. Especially being free and MIT licensed, I don't see why it wouldn't be open.

Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

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Post by saagarjha » Sat, Feb 09, 2019, 4:05 PM UTC

Perhaps this something that a browser should be doing, instead of websites themselves?

Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

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Post by jakelazaroff » Sat, Feb 09, 2019, 4:05 PM UTC

akras14 wrote: post #2

Sounds too good to be true, but also brilliant. Curious what others think. What are the downsides?

Increased load on your web server, but other than that zero! (You might even be able to mitigate the load with caching). It progressively enhances existing links if JavaScript is enabled.

There are other libraries that do similar things, such as InstantClick: http://instantclick.io/

Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

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Post by dieulot » Sat, Feb 09, 2019, 4:06 PM UTC

lallysingh wrote: post #4

dieulot wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. The only downside is that you can expect twice the number of requests to your pages (only the pages themselves, not their assets).

And you're using a lot more of the users'bandwidth

You’re only preloading HTML, so it’s negligible compared to what trackers and ads do for instance.

Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

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Post by mars4rp » Sat, Feb 09, 2019, 4:07 PM UTC

This is very nice idea, but isn't the problem initial liad time most of the time? How could we solve that?

Does this also work for all the outgoing links as well? I don't want to improve other sites rendering time at the expense of my own.

Very cool regardless.

Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

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Post by devinl » Sat, Feb 09, 2019, 4:08 PM UTC

jypepin wrote: post #5

This is a feature available on most web frameworks today (for example Link's prefetch on Next.js), but still could be very useful for smaller website and other static pages not using such frameworks. I'd be a little wary of using a script from an unknown person without being able to look at the code - I'd rather see this open source before using. Especially being free and MIT licensed, I don't see why it wouldn't be…

In the technical details, he has a link to the open source on github. Here's the js that's actually doing the preloading: https://github.com/instantpage/instant.page/blob/master/inst...