Hacker News with Generative AI: Web Performance

There isn't much point to HTTP/2 past the load balancer (byroot.github.io)
I want to write a post about Pitchfork, explaining where it comes from, why it is like it is, and how I see its future.

HTTP/2, Load Balancers, Networking, Web Performance

334 points by ciconia 37 days ago | 256 comments

Google Lighthouse recommends not embedding YouTube videos directly (chrome.com)
Third-party resources are often used for displaying ads or videos and integrating with social media. The default approach is to load third-party resources as soon as the page loads, but this can unnecessarily slow the page load. If the third-party content is not critical, this performance cost can be reduced by lazy loading it.

Web Performance, Google Lighthouse, YouTube, Performance Optimization

46 points by jsheard 49 days ago | 15 comments

LWN sluggish due to DDoS onslaughts from AI-scraper bots (kernel.org)
Should you be wondering why @LWN #LWN is occasionally sluggish... since the new year, the DDOS onslaughts from AI-scraper bots has picked up considerably. Only a small fraction of our traffic is serving actual human readers at this point. At times, some bot decides to hit us from hundreds of IP addresses at once, clogging the works. They don't identify themselves as bots, and robots.txt is the only thing they *don't* read off the site. This is beyond unsustainable.

AI, DDoS Attacks, Cybersecurity, Web Performance, Linux

39 points by sohkamyung 71 days ago | 12 comments

Should you be wondering why LWN is occasionally sluggish (kernel.org)
Should you be wondering why @LWN #LWN is occasionally sluggish... since the new year, the DDOS onslaughts from AI-scraper bots has picked up considerably. Only a small fraction of our traffic is serving actual human readers at this point. At times, some bot decides to hit us from hundreds of IP addresses at once, clogging the works. They don't identify themselves as bots, and robots.txt is the only thing they *don't* read off the site.This is beyond unsustainable.

AI, Web Performance, Security, DDoS Attacks

10 points by pera 71 days ago | 1 comments

Please fix your slow website. I'm begging you (urbdyn.com)
The internet was invented over 40 years ago, but for some reason a lot of it is still slow — and it's driving me slightly insane.

Web Performance, User Experience, Technology, Frustration

25 points by im_ferris 72 days ago | 8 comments

how come a company founded over 100 years ago has the fastest site (twitter.com)

Web Performance, Twitter, History, Business

24 points by MangoCoffee 166 days ago | 14 comments

Critical Resources and the First 14 KB (2022) (tunetheweb.com)
Many web performance experts recommend putting all critical resources in the first 14 KB of your web page.

Web Performance, Optimization, Web Development, Resources

72 points by tosh 205 days ago | 11 comments

We increased our rendering speeds by 70x using the WebCodecs API (re.video)

Web Development, Web Performance, JavaScript APIs

16 points by hkonsti 275 days ago | 0 comments

I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Page I Visit (2020) (howonlee.github.io)

Web Development, User Experience, Performance Optimization, Web Performance

115 points by colinprince 280 days ago | 112 comments

TTFB (web.dev)

Web Performance, Optimization, Web Development

16 points by alexzeitler 298 days ago | 1 comments

World Page Speed Test – planet-wide elastic scale with FLAME (fly.io)

Web Performance, Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Scalability, FLAME

11 points by rfks 329 days ago | 1 comments

Optimizing WebKit and Safari for Speedometer 3.0 (webkit.org)

Web Performance, Browsers, JavaScript Engines

11 points by daydream 356 days ago | 3 comments