Wow a web page that appeared the second I pressed the link, I guess he practices what he preaches.
Yes, it's sad how we've come to get impressed by this
A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page
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Re: A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page
#22Shameless self-promotion: the homepage of plaintextsports.com is 5.2kb today [1], an in-progress WNBA game (4th quarter) is 11.2kb [2], and an extra inning MLB game is 8.8kb [3]. I wasn't aware of this size threshold, and I'm not at this level of optimization, but I'm always pleased to find more evidence of my playful claim that it's the "fastest website in the history of the internet". [1]: https://plaintextsports.c…
It's very small, but it's difficult to scan and painful to read. You could easily use built-in HTML structures to make it actually readable. Your site is, in my opinion, as much a deviation from the old readable web as the over-designed modern sites are.
There are lots[1] of small, "class-less" CSS libraries that would keep your site as small (or smaller, with tree-shaking in a modern build system) and it would end up much more user-friendly.
Re: A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page
#23Unrelated, but I found reading this post very easy. Something about the colors and font choices worked well for my brain which struggles recently to parse most long-form content..
Re: A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page
#24That's only doable with a text-centric website. I'm currently finishing a photography section for my personal website, and the gallery pages are several hundred kBs in size, while single photo page is almost 1MB in size (provided you load it on a 28" screen; browser will load smaller variants on smaller screens). Most of that weight is the thumbnails (and almost-full-size photo in the latter case). The only JS I have is 6 lines (before minifying) on single photo pages which allow you to go to next or previous photo with keyboard arrows. I don't use any CSS frameworks, just a single hand-written CSS file. I don't have any tracking, analytics, social media features or anything of this sort.
So if even a personal site being done with no deadlines, no pressure from management to include analytics etc. can't do it, because it wants to display a bunch of photos, then I don't think we can expect "web-scale" websites to achieve it.
Re: A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page
#25What CSS does the author use to achieve that "sketchy" effect on the orange headings?
Re: A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page
#26Honestly, "should" is a bit of a click-baity exaggeration. In this day and age where internet speeds are faster and more stable than ever, these kinds of tips should be at the very bottom of your optimisations checklist. I don't care if your website takes 3 seconds to load or 5, what I do care about is that once the website has loaded, my inputs respond as quickly as possible. Reddit for example is total garbage when…
Well, the primary utility is different, and they have memory leaks throughout, but conceptually it's still the website loading slowly.
Re: A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page
#27Honestly, "should" is a bit of a click-baity exaggeration. In this day and age where internet speeds are faster and more stable than ever, these kinds of tips should be at the very bottom of your optimisations checklist. I don't care if your website takes 3 seconds to load or 5, what I do care about is that once the website has loaded, my inputs respond as quickly as possible. Reddit for example is total garbage when…
Bandwidth is getting better more quickly than latency is. TCP slow start requires a round trip to speed up, and if you want that to improve, you need to reduce latency. Increasing bandwidth won’t help.
Re: A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page
#28Wow a web page that appeared the second I pressed the link, I guess he practices what he preaches.
Yes, it's sad how we've come to get impressed by this
Sadly it’s likely to only get worse. Google‘s new "helpful content" updates have the SEO world in a frenetic search for unique images, videos, etc. to stuff into articles. If I remember right Google even states that it prefers to see those in content and articles… Further exacerbating the challenge of creating helpful content that loads quickly if you ever want it to get seen
Re: A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page
#29That's only doable with a text-centric website. I'm currently finishing a photography section for my personal website, and the gallery pages are several hundred kBs in size, while single photo page is almost 1MB in size (provided you load it on a 28" screen; browser will load smaller variants on smaller screens). Most of that weight is the thumbnails (and almost-full-size photo in the latter case). The only JS I have…
1MB per photo is fine. It's the content after all.
Many sites today will load 10MB of JS and custom font crap alone, just to show a few paragraphs of text.
I don't think the point is the size itself, but it's the content vs. bloat ratio.
Re: A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page
#30Shameless self-promotion: the homepage of plaintextsports.com is 5.2kb today [1], an in-progress WNBA game (4th quarter) is 11.2kb [2], and an extra inning MLB game is 8.8kb [3]. I wasn't aware of this size threshold, and I'm not at this level of optimization, but I'm always pleased to find more evidence of my playful claim that it's the "fastest website in the history of the internet". [1]: https://plaintextsports.c…
I check local scores on your site all the time, it rocks!