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A comment on Ask HN: How does Hacker News load so quickly?.

Re:Ask HN: How does Hacker News load so quickly? by noahc on Monday May 07, 2012 @12:58PM (#3939837)
You might want to start here: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/rYKceEmOr/

You can make almost any page load quickly if you have only five requests and about 3kb of Images and CSS together.

Google's homepage is considered pretty minimal and yet it's images are 25 times the size of HN's and it has 14 requests.

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Re:Ask HN: How does Hacker News load so quickly? by topcat31 on Monday May 07, 2012 @01:45PM (#3940070)
I guess, though with the amount of traffic the site gets it still loads super fast. Would bigger images/css really slow it down that much?
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Re:Ask HN: How does Hacker News load so quickly? by phaus on Monday May 07, 2012 @05:53PM (#3941136)
Yes. A file that is ten times larger will take ten times longer to load on the same connection.
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