Re:Links are not buttons (2013)
by dmitriid on Friday April 09, 2021 @06:39PM
(#26757094)
This is a page that displays nothing but static text.
- It does 71 requests
- It loads 2 MB or resources for this static page
- Saves at least 6.7 MB of data in storage on load, no idea where that comes from (service workers maybe?). It jumps to ~16 MB on page refresh
- Running Lighthouse on your website gives 2.9s until first contentful paint. 3 seconds to display less than a kilobyte of text. And that's for the front page. It's significantly worse for longer pages.
- And on top of that it has buttons-for-links for discord and twitter (that are also, funnily enough, removed by ad blockers like AdGuard)
Oh yeah, I see how the "FUD about SPAs" is in reality fully justified criticism.
- It does 71 requests
- It loads 2 MB or resources for this static page
- Saves at least 6.7 MB of data in storage on load, no idea where that comes from (service workers maybe?). It jumps to ~16 MB on page refresh
- Running Lighthouse on your website gives 2.9s until first contentful paint. 3 seconds to display less than a kilobyte of text. And that's for the front page. It's significantly worse for longer pages.
- And on top of that it has buttons-for-links for discord and twitter (that are also, funnily enough, removed by ad blockers like AdGuard)
Oh yeah, I see how the "FUD about SPAs" is in reality fully justified criticism.