Ask HN: How does Hacker News load so quickly?
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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.
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.
AFAIK there's no DB, everything stays on memory. In addition to that the HTML served is pretty minimal.
What does the infrastructure look like and how is it architected to load so quickly?
Apologies if this has already been discussed somewhere. I tried googling but didn't find anything written on it.