[tacone]

To be honest, it does not seem shockingly fast:

My browser console shows a last byte sent, first byte received delta of 18 to 48 ms. It's swift, certainly not shocking.

I don't want to sound cynical, it is a good work and works well all considered.

[bearfrieze]

First and foremost, "light" and "shocking" are references to the word which Litenin imitates: Lightning. I see a mysterious moderator has changed the title – I do not mind, but find it pretty curious.

When I started building Litenin I often found myself waiting several seconds for Feedly to load. My colleagues at work had desktop readers that were equally sluggish. In that perspective it seems rather fast.

I find that Feedly has improved significantly recently. I just loaded my feeds in ~1 second which isn't terrible considering it has a wealth of features that Litenin lacks.