Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds...
by otter-in-a-suit on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:23PM
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I have done the same with Hugo on my blog[0], but actually had to fork an existing theme to remove what I would call bloat.[1]
The interesting thing for me is, while I personally certainly feel the "need for speed" and appreciate pages like yours (nothing blocked, only ~300kb), most people do not. Long loading times, invasive trackers, jumping pages (lazily loading scripts and images), loading fonts from spyware-CDNs - are only things "nerds" like us care about.
The nicest comment on my design I heard was "Well, looks like a developer came up with that" :)
The interesting thing for me is, while I personally certainly feel the "need for speed" and appreciate pages like yours (nothing blocked, only ~300kb), most people do not. Long loading times, invasive trackers, jumping pages (lazily loading scripts and images), loading fonts from spyware-CDNs - are only things "nerds" like us care about.
The nicest comment on my design I heard was "Well, looks like a developer came up with that" :)
[0] https://chollinger.com/blog/ [1] https://github.com/chollinger93/ink-free