[butz]

I'll have to admit, that "modern" website loads a bit faster for me (1.23s vs 1.83s), but that's probably because its visitors count is way lower than on original HN. And, funny thing, the single resource that increases load time over a second is hot-linked y18.svg from HN.

Transfer sizes are so much different: 276.73 kB vs 14.23 kB transferred with compression. And original HN still could improve transfer size by removing IE8 support for triangle icon rotation from CSS.

To conclude: UI and UX experiments are a good thing, keep them coming, as web technologies are not standing still.

[1997roylee]

Thanks for you sharing benchmark result.