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by simondotau 17 days ago
A browser can load a singular page within tens of milliseconds of receiving the packets. It literally cannot get faster. Single page applications only feel faster because there's no risk of white flashes.

Multi-page applications are slow if you load in 20 libraries from 10 different CDNs, a page tracking system, a click tracking system, a "performance metrics" system, a chat bot overlay, an advertising platform, all the crap loaded by the ad intermediate, all the crap loaded by the ad itself, an ad "traffic quality" montor, a Stripe.com thing (even though this isn't a payment page), something from Facebook, something else from fbcdn...