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by lovebes 1770 days ago
how did they make it so fast? I'm always surprised by its loading speed
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sokoloff 1770 days ago
Perhaps an equally (more?) relevant question is "why are other sites so slow?"
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Feoj 1770 days ago
Simplicity. Clean HTML ("rendered" server side), straight forward CSS and little JavaScript.
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iamwil 1770 days ago
I remember reading a couple years ago, that there's no database. It just reads stuff off disk, and then caches it in memory.

It probably also helps that the html/css/js is minimal

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ryandvm 1770 days ago
By not having any features
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