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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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