Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?

Re:Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish? by userbinator on Sunday November 04, 2018 @10:10PM (#18379604)

25.3KB, 2 seconds

That's what the size of a webmail app should be measured in --- kilobytes, not megabytes.

A megabyte of code is a lot, and I'd guess a lot of developers just don't have the intuition of how much that is; to put it into perspective, this is an entire operating system in 1.44MB: http://menuetos.net/

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish? by bassman9000 on Sunday November 04, 2018 @10:53PM (#18379751)

Went to test Fastmail after some other poster suggested it. Granted, inbox is empty, but feels way faster that gmail, on par with basic gmail, with more functionality.

No cache reload: 28 requests, 114KB, 2.45 seconds.

With cache: 28 requests, 12KB, 2.65 seconds. Funny: UI seems ready after 1 second, but there's an eventsource request that dwarfs the rest in the waterfall, taking the rest of the time.

Edit: playing around with the UI, feels close to native.

Edit 2: downvotes, feel free to engage in discussion. Getting tired of the HN mob.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish? by artwr on Monday November 05, 2018 @01:03AM (#18380203)

Thanks for the informative benchmark. I am (slowly) considering alternatives, are you also considering making the jump?

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish? by bassman9000 on Monday November 05, 2018 @01:32PM (#18384646)

Strongly, yes. Fastmail has a help/blog post to help you migrate. I'm concerned about the large size of my gmail inbox (13+ year user), though. They mention actual emails import too, but haven't tested yet.

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