Most of the web really sucks if you have a slow connection
Not the prettiest site you’ll ever visit, but it sure has some pretty awesome content. This article reminds me of a wonderful talk about performance and web page bloat, I strongly encourage you to read it and think about what you can do to shave off bytes on your own site.
The short version is that most sites are so poorly optimized that someone who has no idea what they’re doing can get a 10x improvement in page load times for a site whose job is to serve up text with the occasional image. When I started this blog in 2013, I used Octopress because Jekyll/Octopress was the most widely recommended static site generator back then. A plain blog post with one or two images took 11s to load on a cable connection because the Octopress defaults included multiple useless javascript files in the header (for never-used-by-me things like embedding flash videos and delicious integration), which blocked page rendering.
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