[sxates]

Ironically this page loaded for me in about 500ms on my 1GB fiber connection.

[onion2k]

Your network packets are making a round trip between your computer and the nearest server the site is on, so there's always going to be a hard limit on site speed based on distance. That has to happen a few times for DNS, OPTIONS, a GET for the HTML, maybe more for any blocking resources. Add on parsing and rendering and it's probably getting close to impossible to get much under 100ms for for websites these days. 5 times that isn't great but it does seem a little unreasonable to complain.

[sxates]

To be clear, I wasn't complaining about the speed. 1/2 a second is pretty quick when the average is 6 seconds.

[ekianjo]

Its almost the pattern that the articles complaining about bloat contribute about bloat themselves. Projection.

[manuelmoreale]

And bizarrely, even though it's a simple blog post it's almost 15MB.