<story><title>Show HN: I ranked news websites by speed</title><url>https://legiblenews.com/speed</url><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been working on building &amp;quot;the fastest news website&amp;quot; for a few reasons:&lt;p&gt;1. I got tired of waiting for news websites to load, so I made a text-only news website that only has major news headlines.&lt;p&gt;2. I wanted to demonstrate to the world that if you want to build something really fast on the web, you can do it without loads of JavaScript.&lt;p&gt;3. I wanted to show that you can design something that looks good without having tons of images, etc.&lt;p&gt;I put together the speed page at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;legiblenews.com&amp;#x2F;speed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;legiblenews.com&amp;#x2F;speed&lt;/a&gt; to hold my website to be more accountable for speed, but it&amp;#x27;s also interesting to see how fast other news websites are (or in most cases, are not).&lt;p&gt;Some feedback I&amp;#x27;m interested in receiving:&lt;p&gt;1. What&amp;#x27;s your take both on the speed ranking methodology for Legible News?&lt;p&gt;2. Are my descriptions of the metrics for a non-web developer reasonable? Example of that at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;legiblenews.com&amp;#x2F;speed&amp;#x2F;websites&amp;#x2F;associated-press&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;legiblenews.com&amp;#x2F;speed&amp;#x2F;websites&amp;#x2F;associated-press&lt;/a&gt;, and if you click through the links on that table, you see a description like &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;legiblenews.com&amp;#x2F;speed&amp;#x2F;audits&amp;#x2F;cumulative-layout-shift&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;legiblenews.com&amp;#x2F;speed&amp;#x2F;audits&amp;#x2F;cumulative-layout-shift&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sorry ahead of time, but I can&amp;#x27;t fit all news websites on the speed report. I had to target general news websites, not ones for specific niches like HN for Tech. If there&amp;#x27;s something you think that&amp;#x27;s missing please post it, but I can&amp;#x27;t promise that I&amp;#x27;ll add it.&lt;p&gt;If you like it, please consider subscribing! Thanks!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>notjustanymike</author><text>Back in my Newsweek days, we rebuilt the entire site with a blisteringly fast homepage. Proper caching, lazy loading where needed, and fully optimized CSS, images, and javascript. Then the sales team sold a 600px wide takeover ad for scabies medication showing an old dudes infected back.&lt;p&gt;So it doesn’t matter how fast you build the site. You don’t have control over the things that make it bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guestbest</author><text>Advertising is related to technology in much the same way a parasite is related to the host</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: I ranked news websites by speed</title><url>https://legiblenews.com/speed</url><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been working on building &amp;quot;the fastest news website&amp;quot; for a few reasons:&lt;p&gt;1. I got tired of waiting for news websites to load, so I made a text-only news website that only has major news headlines.&lt;p&gt;2. I wanted to demonstrate to the world that if you want to build something really fast on the web, you can do it without loads of JavaScript.&lt;p&gt;3. I wanted to show that you can design something that looks good without having tons of images, etc.&lt;p&gt;I put together the speed page at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;legiblenews.com&amp;#x2F;speed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;legiblenews.com&amp;#x2F;speed&lt;/a&gt; to hold my website to be more accountable for speed, but it&amp;#x27;s also interesting to see how fast other news websites are (or in most cases, are not).&lt;p&gt;Some feedback I&amp;#x27;m interested in receiving:&lt;p&gt;1. What&amp;#x27;s your take both on the speed ranking methodology for Legible News?&lt;p&gt;2. Are my descriptions of the metrics for a non-web developer reasonable? Example of that at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;legiblenews.com&amp;#x2F;speed&amp;#x2F;websites&amp;#x2F;associated-press&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;legiblenews.com&amp;#x2F;speed&amp;#x2F;websites&amp;#x2F;associated-press&lt;/a&gt;, and if you click through the links on that table, you see a description like &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;legiblenews.com&amp;#x2F;speed&amp;#x2F;audits&amp;#x2F;cumulative-layout-shift&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;legiblenews.com&amp;#x2F;speed&amp;#x2F;audits&amp;#x2F;cumulative-layout-shift&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sorry ahead of time, but I can&amp;#x27;t fit all news websites on the speed report. I had to target general news websites, not ones for specific niches like HN for Tech. If there&amp;#x27;s something you think that&amp;#x27;s missing please post it, but I can&amp;#x27;t promise that I&amp;#x27;ll add it.&lt;p&gt;If you like it, please consider subscribing! Thanks!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>notjustanymike</author><text>Back in my Newsweek days, we rebuilt the entire site with a blisteringly fast homepage. Proper caching, lazy loading where needed, and fully optimized CSS, images, and javascript. Then the sales team sold a 600px wide takeover ad for scabies medication showing an old dudes infected back.&lt;p&gt;So it doesn’t matter how fast you build the site. You don’t have control over the things that make it bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bradgessler</author><text>I was hoping some folks would chime in who built these websites!&lt;p&gt;Yes, I&amp;#x27;ve run big websites and they&amp;#x27;re kind of like sea faring vessels -- given enough time with a large enough team, they tend to collect barnacles and become slower over time.&lt;p&gt;I made the speed rankings so that Legible News wouldn&amp;#x27;t lose site that speed matters.</text></comment>