On Friday, 10 March 2017 at 07:51:30 UTC, Anon wrote:
The whole webpage https://forum.dlang.org/ has only 300KB in
size. It not only supports mobile devices, but also loads much
faster than general modern web pages.
How can they achieve such result?
I think (not verified scientifically) that it is due to the forum
software (DFeed) being written in D and hence compiled, vs. a lot
of other forum software that may be written in interpreted
languages. I too have noticed its speed. Plus of course, all the
points that others have said about a lot of extra stuff on other
sites, like 2 MB pages, JS, video, ads, trackers, etc. I also
read somewhere that DFeed is open source, so anyone who wants to
study it, can do so. If I ever setup a forum, I'll try using
DFeed for it.
