[HeyImAlex]

Eh, use a static site generator in tandem with something like s3+cloudfront and you can have a lightning fast and practically infinitely scalable personal site for pennies a month.

My site's not particularly complex, but it comes out ahead speed wise on pingdom when compared to medium.

http://i.imgur.com/O2xVK7t.jpg

[ameen]

I'd say blogging on a "platform" as opposed to a self-hosted/controlled solution would have some benefits over a self-baked one.

But at the end of the day, if you're blogging for your business/startup it makes more sense for it to be under your control as you can leverage the analytics and if possible turn them into conversions.

[designofhomes]

What surprised me most about the speed stats in your image is the file size of the pages. The medium.com page is half a megabyte! And yet it's a plain text page. What's causing the bloat? Are fonts being downloading? Even if they are, it's still feels excessive.

[stephenhacking]

Possible true, but that's a tad too technical for me. I just want to focus on the writing.