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What are the fastest sites you visit daily?

Madza on December 04, 2020

Achieving great site speed is not just a coincidence, as there are lots of efforts being put in to get there. Choosing the right tech tools for the...
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Karan Gandhi

localhost:3000

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Madza

Hahaha, home sweet home 💯😄😄

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Calin Baenen

Quite literally.

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Gautham Vijayan

Dope comment!!

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Zen

React?

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Karan Gandhi

Express actually. Well all express apps run at 3000 by default.

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Zen

Thanks. I usually using Svelte with port 5000. So, I forgot what port 3000 using to. Hahhhah

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Madza

I love Svelte ❤ Have you checked out Sapper as well? 😉

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Zen

I created my own Svelte template for my personal needs

Instalasi

npx degit mzaini30/svelte my-project
cd my-project
npm i
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Struktur folder

Keterangan Folder
File Svelte src/pages
Static files public/dist
Output public

Fitur

CSS

Menggunakan Bootstrap

Code splitting

Cukup jalankan

npm run build
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Router berbasis file

Kita menggunakan Routify.

Hot module reload

Dia nggak mereset state saat kita development. Cukup jalankan:

npm run dev
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SEO

Ini isi dari public/index.html:

<!-- 
 Website ini dibuat oleh Zen
 duniazen.com
-->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset='utf-8'>
    <meta name='viewport' content='width=device-width,initial-scale=1'>
    <title>Svelte Template</title>
    <meta name="description" content="Template Svelte yang diolah oleh Zen">
    <meta property="og:image" content="/dist/jean.jpg">
    <link rel='icon' type='image/png' href='/dist/ungu.png'>
    <link
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17ttt

localhost:8080
I won

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Karan Gandhi

wins internet

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Aabishkar Wagle • Edited

Dev .to is quite fast as well. Also, another fastest site I noticed is GitHub .com

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Madza • Edited

Agree 👍 Github is among the fastest as well 😉

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AviKKi

dev.to uses preact, they are taking good advantage of it. Also caching plays a major role when you revisit.

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Madza

Speed and great UX have always been two of the main factors making the website appealing to me 😉 Great to see they are distributing Forem, that is heavily oriented towards that 👍

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Robin Gagnon

Link preloading on focus/hover plays a pretty big part in the speed feeling as well

If you're curious, you can check your network tab for requests when you hover/focus any link on the site.

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AviKKi

do you have any reference for this? googling this concept didn't return anything relevant.

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Robin Gagnon

Instant Click docs from docs.forem.com are not extensive but they can get you started on how Forem does it 🌞

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Dennis Frijlink

preactjs.com/. Fastest website I've ever visited

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Patryk Woziński

Whoah, that's the speed demon! I need to check Preact on my side project or in some playground. :D

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Madza • Edited

It's lightning-fast, indeed ⚡
Even Gatsby, that famously uses 'blazing fast' to describe their product, can't keep up 😄😄

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Dennis Frijlink

Yeah I know. I love Static Site Generators (like Gatsby) btw but preact is so fast/lightweight 😄

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Corentin Bettiol • Edited

Dev.to and SpaceHey (a myspace clone launched a few days ago).

Mrzool said (on the hackernews comments):

I'm absolutely blown away by the speed of this website. Facebook and Twitter are a bloated heavy mess in comparison.

The first answer (by userbinator) explain the speed pretty well:

That's what 10 years of hardware improvements actually looks like without 10 corresponding years of software degradation.

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Harsh Shandilya • Edited

It'd be my own: msfjarvis.dev. I don't browse its actual contents daily but I do frequently use the redirects I built into it, which makes links such as msfjarvis.dev/aps and msfjarvis.dev/g/redirekt possible.

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Madza

Good job on it 👍 Minimalistic, easy to navigate, great contrast, and most importantly snappy ⚡

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NaveenKumar Namachivayam ⚡

⚡ google
⚡ dev.to
🐌 producthunt is not so fast
⚡ github
⚡ theverge
⚡ my website qainsights :)

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Thomas Bnt ☕

Dev.to is very fast 🌱☕

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Madza • Edited

Ikr 😉 Great to see the Forem team caring about their users and their experience on the site 😉 Various tech solutions are there for a reason, and the team did (and still do) an awesome job putting the puzzle pieces together ⚡

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Tobias Nickel

I envy you, living in china I don't know fast internet.

but I found taobao.com is crszy fast, even when it load 300 requests on the search result page.

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Madza • Edited

Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan have awesome speeds near you, as far as I know 😉

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Calin Baenen

I dunno if my site is "fast".

....But feel free to test! >:D

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João M.C. Teixeira

I had done my answer in my mind before reading the post actually. I totally agree with you. I had thought just about DEV though.

Cheers,

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Jonah Kowall

Superhuman is very impressive, but they combine an extension with a great ux. Completely keyboard driven :)

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Zen

My blog. Hehehehe...

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Jayanika Chandrapriya

x.com

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Madza

Hahah, yeah, still remember his tweet 😄😄