[awhitty]

The page loads within 500ms for me without cache, fonts and all. It doesn't show animations, flashing content, mailing list modals, etc. Navigating between pages is near-instant. The site isn't collapsing under its own weight.

Compare the site to sf.funcheap.com which I unfortunately use to learn about things to do here in SF. Yes, it renders without JavaScript enabled, but the two pages take the same amount of time to load in my browser, and Funcheap still tries to load resources from two domains blocked by uBlock Origin even with JS disabled (15 with it enabled). Is that really any better? There are so many miserable experiences on the web, most made particularly maddening by poorly applying JavaScript in the hopes of driving conversions on some metric. This site ain't it though.

Sure, the first load could include the initial brush of content in its markup. In 2022, this is a trivial change to sprinkle onto a front-end.