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Re: I am a fast webpage

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Why not do both and be safe if your sensitization has a bug?

I still don't understand what it accomplishes. Why does inline matter? The vulnerability means they can inject arbitrary markup including or that load offsite sources. You can use CSP to whitelist allowed offsite domains. But if you're not careful, "you never know" and "you might as well" are more likely to waste your time chasing low value things. For instance, inline CSS is valuable as an intermittent developer con…

I still don't understand what it accomplishes. Why does inline matter?

In the worst case scenario, where the server doesn't have all the blocks of the file cached in random acces memory, the server can fetch the single, inlined file with fewer input operations per second from local storage far faster than one's web browser can fetch multiple files over the network. This means that latency is lowered, and thus delivery time is accelerated.

Re: I am a fast webpage

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looks like this whole thing is a scheme to promote his webhsting affiliate link: http://www.knownhost.com/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=1136... The fastest and most reliable hosting is, by far, based on my own experience is amazon's e2 cloud and S3 bucket services.

Have you tried Joyent or AnyCity?

Re: I am a fast webpage

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looks like this whole thing is a scheme to promote his webhsting affiliate link: http://www.knownhost.com/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=1136... The fastest and most reliable hosting is, by far, based on my own experience is amazon's e2 cloud and S3 bucket services.

I picture him coding this in vi with a maniacal evil laugh, thinking of all the money his scheme will make

Nothing wrong with that; Smarts should be rewarded.

Re: I am a fast webpage

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Wait - what precisely do users demand from your website today? Usually I'm happy to find a website which loads quickly, is clean, and steers me in the direction of whatever I'm trying to find, personally.

My expertise is not marketing so I don't feel I could adequately answer that question but there are plenty of focus group studies which show what sort of UX works best. It's a safe bet that most of the big corporations who are already focus-grouping everything they publish, such as Disney for example, are also using focus groups to design their websites.

They're using split testing, conversion rate optimisation, and bizdev to design their sites. When something appears on a corporate website, it's there to benefit someone in the corporation, not the users (although it might benefit them as a side effect).

Re: I am a fast webpage

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There is a free tier. It looks like it's free up to 1GB per day [1]. On my home account I've only used it for demo projects that are scarcely used, but it's fine for that. [1] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas

Does it 'stop' if you reach the quota or do you get a bill?

If you don't put in your credit card info, it stops. Otherwise you get a bill.

Re: I am a fast webpage

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I hate to be negative, but what really is the point of this? That a simple webpage without any content can be fast? Of course it can. Is it desirable to inline your CSS, "like a boss?" Maybe if you have one single web page. What if you have dynamic content and your users intend to browse more than one page? With externalized CSS, that is all cached. Same with images. If I'm building a web application, I certainly do…

> what really is the point of this?

An affiliate link in the last paragraph.

Re: I am a fast webpage

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This guy's advice is exactly what Google advises you to do, and exactly what Google does. You say this website is only fast because it's "without any content". If there's no content then tell me how it communicated its point so clearly. If it's inherently fast then tell me why the same thing posted to Medium is so slow. A hallmark of a great solution is that people who see it decide the problem must not have been ver…

Google doesn't do this on their more full-featured apps like G-Mail or Google Docs. Docs ships a bunch of files and stylesheets. Search works well because they have relatively few features to support by default (for things like the calculator I bet they ship that in with the response).

I think it's implied that these advices are for content pages, for the "old web", and not for single page apps.
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