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Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Post by dougfinley »

seanwilson wrote: post #59
alberth wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please note I am truly rooting for you guys to make the web a better place. But it's not just the blog I linked to above that's slow, it's even the blog post of this very HN post. https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.netlify.com/KdCXA8bB 54 http request (26 of which are JS) just seems kind of nuts for a blog post. Not trying to make you guys look bad. But clearly asset merging and image optimization are needed.

The number of HTTP requests is not a big deal now with HTTP2. See here where it's no longer recommended to concatenate JS files: https://blog.cloudflare.com/http-2-for-web-developers/ Is YSlow (which warns about too many HTTP requests) still updated? There's been no updates for 3 years here: https://github.com/marcelduran/yslow

Actually, Netlify site performs WORSE using http2.

See the comparison:

https://www.dareboost.com/en/comparison/598b93730cf2aac95f75...

Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Post by StavrosK »

alberth wrote: post #33

I've never understood Netlify. They are supposed to be targeted at static high performance blogs. Yet their own blog is 15MB in size and over 100 different http requests. See the YSlow report for their blog site below. https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.netlify.com/C6fG3uTg It receives an "F" rating. Isn't this kind of bloated website the exact problem Netlify is suppose to solve?

I don't need my doctor to be thin when he's telling me I need to lose fat, though.

I host my blog with their service, I get thousands of visitors a day and it's always extremely fast. I love the simple deployment and the features they give me, and I evangelize their service to everyone.

Try it out, it's fantastic, despite the large landing page.

Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Post by seanwilson »

dougfinley wrote: post #61
seanwilson wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The number of HTTP requests is not a big deal now with HTTP2. See here where it's no longer recommended to concatenate JS files: https://blog.cloudflare.com/http-2-for-web-developers/ Is YSlow (which warns about too many HTTP requests) still updated? There's been no updates for 3 years here: https://github.com/marcelduran/yslow

Actually, Netlify site performs WORSE using http2. See the comparison: https://www.dareboost.com/en/comparison/598b93730cf2aac95f75...

Is that because of the number of requests or a different reason though?

Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Post by curun1r »

Awesome! Given the somewhat excessive egress prices charged by AWS/S3 and GCP/Cloud Storage for sites hosted on those services, I've always considered Netlify (and others with similar services) as the companion piece to Lambda/Cloud Functions in the "how to go serverless and save money" playbook. It's great to see them getting some VC love since it will make them an easier sell in corporate environments.

Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Post by elliotec »

StavrosK wrote: post #62
alberth wrote: post #33

I've never understood Netlify. They are supposed to be targeted at static high performance blogs. Yet their own blog is 15MB in size and over 100 different http requests. See the YSlow report for their blog site below. https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.netlify.com/C6fG3uTg It receives an "F" rating. Isn't this kind of bloated website the exact problem Netlify is suppose to solve?

I don't need my doctor to be thin when he's telling me I need to lose fat, though. I host my blog with their service, I get thousands of visitors a day and it's always extremely fast. I love the simple deployment and the features they give me, and I evangelize their service to everyone. Try it out, it's fantastic, despite the large landing page.

I absolutely, obviously, would trust a thin doctor telling me to lose weight over a fat one telling me almost anything.

Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Post by dungle6 »

elliotec wrote: post #66
StavrosK wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't need my doctor to be thin when he's telling me I need to lose fat, though. I host my blog with their service, I get thousands of visitors a day and it's always extremely fast. I love the simple deployment and the features they give me, and I evangelize their service to everyone. Try it out, it's fantastic, despite the large landing page.

I absolutely, obviously, would trust a thin doctor telling me to lose weight over a fat one telling me almost anything.

Why obviously? You're not a bright one.

Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Post by late2part »

mipmap04 wrote: post #37
alberth wrote: post #33

I've never understood Netlify. They are supposed to be targeted at static high performance blogs. Yet their own blog is 15MB in size and over 100 different http requests. See the YSlow report for their blog site below. https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.netlify.com/C6fG3uTg It receives an "F" rating. Isn't this kind of bloated website the exact problem Netlify is suppose to solve?

To be fair, 14.4MB of that is images (I don't know why some of them are that large, however). Does their offering specifically have something related to image optimization / scaling (I'm unfamiliar with Netlify)?

only 600kb of text on a landing page?

That's about the same size as _Walden_ by Thoreau. Seems large.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/205/205-0.txt

Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Post by kentor »

elliotec wrote: post #66
StavrosK wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't need my doctor to be thin when he's telling me I need to lose fat, though. I host my blog with their service, I get thousands of visitors a day and it's always extremely fast. I love the simple deployment and the features they give me, and I evangelize their service to everyone. Try it out, it's fantastic, despite the large landing page.

I absolutely, obviously, would trust a thin doctor telling me to lose weight over a fat one telling me almost anything.

Even a thin doctor who stays thin with a terrible diet?

Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Post by ahallock »

alberth wrote: post #33

I've never understood Netlify. They are supposed to be targeted at static high performance blogs. Yet their own blog is 15MB in size and over 100 different http requests. See the YSlow report for their blog site below. https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.netlify.com/C6fG3uTg It receives an "F" rating. Isn't this kind of bloated website the exact problem Netlify is suppose to solve?

Netlify is wonderful. I never thought to check if they dogfood their product, though. Sometimes, resources are allocated to new features and site redesign/restructuring work gets pushed to the back burner.
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