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So brave.
So HN.
Reddit v3.
How we improved our website's performance
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Re: How we improved our website's performance
#4212 people for a static site seems like a huge team to me.
It's not a static site. It has a site-wide search. It lets users post comments on articles. It also has its own store selling books. And it serves ads too.
I’m not entirely sure you quite get the phrase, unless you feel that the definition of a “static site” is too permissive.
Re: How we improved our website's performance
#43> Around the same time we switched from an (outdated) manually created critical CSS file to an automated system that was generating critical CSS for every template — homepage, article, product page, event, job board, and so on — and inline critical CSS during the build time. Yet we didn’t really realize how much heavier the automatically generated critical CSS was. Is reducing the total amount of CSS per page so you…
That's one of the fastest loading modern pages I've ever been to. Kudos!
Thanks! I wouldn't mind seeing a list of fast loading pages like this that have images + functionality that aren't mostly text. There's only so much you can do if your design requires large photos or a video in the header though.
Re: How we improved our website's performance
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> It should load in an instant. FWIW, it does load in an instant for me. (Lighthouse Performance = 99, Speed Index = 0.4s.)
Me too, but I'm loading it on a $3000 computer with 150Mbps/<10ms internet. Generally it's a good idea to only focus on the mobile score. :)
It also loads very fast (close to instantly) for me on a pretty old mobile (moto g6). Most websites are slow to load for me on this device. This one isn't.
Re: How we improved our website's performance
#45"Modern" web development is apparently a game of Jenga.
Only because developers absolutely insist on building things that way, for some reason I will never comprehend. What's the first thing most people do when starting a new project? They ask "what framework should I build this on?" and start their tiny portfolio site built upon a massively overpowered suite of enterprise-level software with a million features they'll never, ever need. Then they might drop in ten or fift…
This is such a tired take. Logic has been moved from the backend to the frontend (again) which has justified the complexity.
Re: How we improved our website's performance
#46> Around the same time we switched from an (outdated) manually created critical CSS file to an automated system that was generating critical CSS for every template — homepage, article, product page, event, job board, and so on — and inline critical CSS during the build time. Yet we didn’t really realize how much heavier the automatically generated critical CSS was. Is reducing the total amount of CSS per page so you…
Just wanted to say that I’ve been using Checkbot for years and it’s great
Re: How we improved our website's performance
#47"Modern" web development is apparently a game of Jenga.
And designing to please Google.
Re: How we improved our website's performance
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only because developers absolutely insist on building things that way, for some reason I will never comprehend. What's the first thing most people do when starting a new project? They ask "what framework should I build this on?" and start their tiny portfolio site built upon a massively overpowered suite of enterprise-level software with a million features they'll never, ever need. Then they might drop in ten or fift…
This is such a tired take. Logic has been moved from the backend to the frontend (again) which has justified the complexity.
> This is such a tired take
Quite the opposite. It needs to be hammered into people. Your app isn't Notion or Google Docs. Your app is a form with a login menu and a couple of small logic elements and a date picker.
Re: How we improved our website's performance
#49Not fantastic: https://www.websitecarbon.com/website/smashingmagazine-com-2...
This site is atrocious. About 4.5% of world's population has some level of color deficiency.
How do people come up with this shit?
Re: How we improved our website's performance
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only because developers absolutely insist on building things that way, for some reason I will never comprehend. What's the first thing most people do when starting a new project? They ask "what framework should I build this on?" and start their tiny portfolio site built upon a massively overpowered suite of enterprise-level software with a million features they'll never, ever need. Then they might drop in ten or fift…
This is such a tired take. Logic has been moved from the backend to the frontend (again) which has justified the complexity.
I have a slow (apparently) work laptop and the web is horribly slow. Some pages feel like surfin' the pre 2000 web with all that lag and slow loading everytime anything moves.
For myself, I would appreciate more such takes.