Show IH: Who has the fastest website?
Curious to know how fast our websites are.
It is said that,
53% of mobile site visits are abandoned if pages take longer than 3 seconds to load. A 2-second delay in load time resulted in abandonment rates of up to 87%
That said, now it's time to boast about our ultra-fast site. Our founder community landing page loads in 1.5 seconds > join.coulf.com
How fast is yours and what did you do to make it faster?
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Website performance is something I care about deeply, So I tend to go for minimalist designs and that reflects in its performance scores.
Some of my current websites,
You have some interesting projects. And they all seem to have some sort of design consistency which is really great.
Minimalistic and fast!
First contentful paint - 0.9s. Fully loaded time - 7.2s (I have 2mb gif at the bottom of the page)
Don't get stuck with those speed metrics, they have fixed outcome. The user experience starts as soon as you have HTML and CSS loaded. If you have additional images to be loaded then they get loaded by the time the user finishes with the title and value prop.
I don't think it matters if it's between 1 - 4 seconds. I personally leave sites that take more than ~5 secs. If I'm highly interested in the site, coz I read about it somewhere or know about it, I'll wait for a few more seconds.
Hey! Can you also provide a link to the speed test as several testers use different measuring :)
Yeah sure. I used Wix Turbo to test since ours is a Wix EditorX site - link:
Other popular speed test tools include:
Google PageSpeed Insights - link
GTmetrix - link
Pingdom - link
I'm still in alpha, but very happy with our mobile score.
caniautomate.com
Man I have to figure out what is slowing down my site: https://jamform.com
It's serverside rendered with NextJS, uses Cloudflare caching, barely has any image/media, doesn't even have a lot of content, yet still gets a 55 in Lighthouse with 5.4s first contentful paint :(
Edit: Nevermind I pushed a few small changes and was able to bring my desktop Lighthouse average from 94.2 to 99, and mobile Lighthouse average from 57.6 to 93.2. (calculated by running 5 tests on each and averaging, before and after).
What changes did you make? It has a gif and a paragraph length of text. It should have been fast even before you made changes I think.
That’s what I thought but I think the big change was I wasn’t purging my unused Tailwind Css which was causing some excess CSS. Also it wanted me to add a default width/height to those images since they were causing a large repaint when CSS loaded, that actually added almost 10 points itself on mobile. Not much changed but huge difference!
Hey all, you can check https://midnight.pub - it loads pretty fast. :)
For more context, I wanted to build something that don't need javascript and only little css. It's focused on text.
Edit: well, looks like it does pretty well!
Good old text and html. Nice to see sites like yours these days.
I see that I will compete for the slowest instead. 😆
So this is how client-side rendered CRA page speed looks like.
We have done many optimizations to increase the loading time. It was worse. We use CDN, we separate JS in chunks, we lazy load unneeded js, etc..
The only way to make it quick is server-side rendering the page, but that would require quite an investment of time.
On the other hand, here is GTmetrix results:
They are completely different from Pagespeed insights 🤷♂️
Wow, that's like the opposite. Didn't expect it'd be this different.
I'm not technical but since this is from Canada, does it has to do anything with the server location? And the results from Google change because of that?
Yes, these might be the reasons:
Yeah 98% on desktop for https://translatestack.com/
Yeah, it was fast. How did it do on mobile?
Here's data for https://www.thisismylaunch.com/ Not bad, but there is definitely room for improvement.
First Contentful Paint 1.0 s
Speed Index 3.7 s
Largest Contentful Paint 3.6 s
Time to Interactive 1.9 s
Fast, cool design and nice idea! Do you plan to feature launch campaigns for a fee to monetize the project?
Thanks! For now everything is free and will stay free while I'm building a fully-featured version of a platform. I have some ideas about monetization but I want to focus on getting users and finding product-market first.
Shameless plug here: https://www.lightest.app/c/Vbu0asrsFw
I built a visualization and comparison tool for Lighthouse reports so you can see timeline animation.
That was awesome to see this way. Thanks for sharing!
I didn't know what those icons are (eye, thumbs up..). Took me a while to know they're tool tips as I was on my mobile. Maybe you can put up an icon and it's description on top of the page for mobile alone.
Thank you for the feedback, I'm thinking about how to improve UX but keep UI simple and minimalistic.
https://fiwl-js.github.io - this is faster than the speed of light ⚡
The whole point of this post is two things, 1 is showing this site of ours is fast 😎 lol and 2 is trying to fiqure out how these sites are so fast (!?).
How is your site so fast?
I used gtmetrix.com and time to interactive of my website was 1.4s. Checkmate 😅
Personality reveal, right? I felt it was faster than that when I visited normally. Couldn't tell any difference.
Yeah.. I also don't really know what these tools measure as the load time they say compared to the actual load time sometimes differs very much.
Just saw a new comment, Google PageSpeed was 5 seconds and GTmetrix less than a sec for large contentful paint. It's crazy how it is measured.
I got 65 on mobile and 97 on desktop (Lighthouse) for https://ds9soft.com/popdo/
Haven’t got a way to increase the mobile performance...
You've got quite some images there but it is still fast. How's that?
Screenshots are lazyloaded. Other than that, I have no idea. I used Blocs app to build the site. I used to do it manually and it was much simpler (and also faster) before. Now I prefer a website builder to handle most of the stuff for me, so I can focus on my stuff instead.
I prefer a site builder too. I don't code, so. It's like I would set it and forget about servers, managing and all that.
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Oh shoot.
But that large contentful paint is so unexplainable even when I try to load the site on several devices with vpn/wifi/data & others it doesn't get that long.
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I actually ran the test on Wix's Website Speed tool and it was that result. So I think they'll factor this broken element and then report the result.
When I run your site, I get time to interactive 5.8s at a performance score of 68
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@Dinakar 's page
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Your personal website has good design. Speed was visually slow when I opened for the first time but the metrics are good.
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I meant "watching the screen load", it felt like it was slow when using it. Yeah, maybe because the images lazy loaded when I first visited.
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