Re:Web App Speed
by jakobegger on Monday June 01, 2015 @02:23AM
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Yup. For my company website I made sure that most pages require just a single request to render: CSS is inlined and (small) scripts are loaded at the bottom of the page. This means that even when hosting it on a crappy host, without a CDN, you get stellar page load performance.
I'd hedge that 95-99% of alexa top 1000 sites could be delivered under 30kb -- just content+ css. (assuming ajax/video/fonts are asyncronous in google's algo and not counted towards load time).
In which case it's easy even for the cheapest AWS server to host and server instantaneously. I think the bigger sites have a distinct disadvantage -- they have so many tracking and ad resources, that it kills their load time.