I am a fast webpage • Hacker News Board

Re: I am a fast webpage

#11

Post by smoyer » Wed, Sep 07, 2016, 10:23 PM UTC

"Look amazing on any device" ... The right edge of your text is coiled on my phone (not so amazing).

Re: I am a fast webpage

#12

Post by quinndupont » Wed, Sep 07, 2016, 10:24 PM UTC

Is this image inlining thing something new? Am I reading it correctly that the images are encoded in base64 and delivered as html? Surely this is a bad idea... no?

Re: I am a fast webpage

#13

Post by clessg » Wed, Sep 07, 2016, 10:26 PM UTC

How much does HTTP/2 mitigate the need for such techniques, if at all?

Re: I am a fast webpage

#14

Post by ralusek » Wed, Sep 07, 2016, 10:27 PM UTC

quinndupont wrote: post #12

Is this image inlining thing something new? Am I reading it correctly that the images are encoded in base64 and delivered as html? Surely this is a bad idea... no?

There is an increase in size to base64 encode, in addition to what I assume is the lost capability to cache images, as well as load them intelligently.

Re: I am a fast webpage

#15

Post by josephjrobison » Wed, Sep 07, 2016, 10:27 PM UTC

Pretty good at 97/100 on Google's PageSpeed Insights - https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...

Re: I am a fast webpage

#16

Post by vonseel » Wed, Sep 07, 2016, 10:28 PM UTC

Cool... Unfortunately in practice it's easy to find a list of best practices, much harder to implement in a scalable and durable manner on any project of sufficient size, especially if working with a legacy codebase.

Re: I am a fast webpage

#17

Post by ksubedi » Wed, Sep 07, 2016, 10:28 PM UTC

Took me almost 30 seconds to load, maybe because the server is being hammered by HN traffic right now? Also like others here were saying, using a CDN would definitely help with the initial latency.

Re: I am a fast webpage

#18

Post by Confiks » Wed, Sep 07, 2016, 10:29 PM UTC

quinndupont wrote: post #12

Is this image inlining thing something new? Am I reading it correctly that the images are encoded in base64 and delivered as html? Surely this is a bad idea... no?

No, image inlining is quite old, and base64 is not a very efficient encoding, although gzip might make up for the ~1/3 increase in size.

You'd think HTTP/2 server push would stand for this, but I can imagine inlining is still a bit faster.

Re: I am a fast webpage

#19

Post by ksubedi » Wed, Sep 07, 2016, 10:29 PM UTC

Took me almost 30 seconds to load, maybe because the server is being hammered by HN traffic right now? Also like others here were saying, using a CDN would definitely help with the initial latency.

Re: I am a fast webpage

#20

Post by Numberwang » Wed, Sep 07, 2016, 10:29 PM UTC

quinndupont wrote: post #12

Is this image inlining thing something new? Am I reading it correctly that the images are encoded in base64 and delivered as html? Surely this is a bad idea... no?

You can do it with fonts too.