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Sorry for the offensive domain name (it's not mine), but this is relevant here: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
I prefer http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ which was my inspiration for my blog design http://benlowery.co.uk/ :)
Without looking I can tell you it's two reasons: 1) It's text based and, therefore, can keep its total response small. 2) The page is cached on the backend so database lookups are kept infrequent and small. Those two reasons alone make it faster than, say, 80% of most web sites.
That this is even a question is just sad. It means the slow web is just accepted. Most web pages aren't particularly more functional than they were 15 years ago. Sure, maybe search boxes have auto-complete. But taking a screenshot to compare output? You could achieve much the same stuff, pixel-per-pixel, back with table-based layout. Yet even though we're running machines over 10x more powerful, things are laggy.
It's embarrassing, annoying, and dumb.
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Sorry for the offensive domain name (it's not mine), but this is relevant here: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
I prefer http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ which was my inspiration for my blog design http://benlowery.co.uk/ :)
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Awesome, thanks for the additional info. On a related note, I really appreciate how good CloudFlare is about knowledge sharing. Not a lot of companies would be so willing to share information that's so integral to their business.
On the other hand, they do some stupid stuff, disregarding the standard and how useful it is [0]. [0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/deprecating-dns-any-meta-query-t...
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So every time a new comment is posted, is the CloudFlare cache invalidated and replaced with a new version of the comments page?
Actually for now, HN is not caching their HTML with us. we put a "CF-Cache-Status" header for when we are caching things
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This one is crazy. How are they so fast?
No, forum.dlang.org is not crazy-fast. Other sites are crazy-slow. Write compact and easy-to-render HTML, it's no rocket science. Write some trivial CSS, you don't need Bootstrap. Make something dead-simple and call it flat design . If you have more than one stylesheet, concatenate them into one. Consider minifying. You don't need a 200 kB JS framework in order to fade in some hover menu. If you do need more than one…
You're ignoring that this site does use jQuery and webfonts and loads all of those pretty avatars separately. 22 requests, at my count.
For the reasons you list - i.e. words to the effect of "don't use all of this stuff" - I think that it is impressively fast, and their achievement shouldn't be hand-waved away quite so readily.
If you want to see an even faster "forum", see http://forum.dlang.org/
I have been puzzled by this being said about dlang forever and today about HN. These sites are certainly not noticeably slow, but I don't notice anything remarkably fast about them either. Am I not visiting enough of the slow sites ? My working hypothesis is that I don't have a good understanding of web-development to appreciate the nuances. Much akin to me listening to Indian classical music, Jazz: I would often enc…
Under the same conditions, the dlang site loads in ~200ms.
That's half a second faster, which is definitely noticeable when clicking around.
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I prefer http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ which was my inspiration for my blog design http://benlowery.co.uk/ :)
You know, after 20 years of www, one'd think browsers would be able to competently format text files already. The fact that we need that small amount of css (instead of it just being available) means the web is still broken.
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I have been puzzled by this being said about dlang forever and today about HN. These sites are certainly not noticeably slow, but I don't notice anything remarkably fast about them either. Am I not visiting enough of the slow sites ? My working hypothesis is that I don't have a good understanding of web-development to appreciate the nuances. Much akin to me listening to Indian classical music, Jazz: I would often enc…
> Am I not visiting enough of the slow sites? Do you use NoScript? I feel the same way because I usually run with JS turned off. Most things are pretty zippy despite using a computer from 2009.