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Comment by akjainaj | Hacker News Reader

Taking into account how reddit performs, I'll take this as a guide on how not to use cache.

(This is a joke please. Understand it as such. I know reddit has the problems it has because it is severely understaffed)

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Honestly I do recall periods when reddit wasn't performing particularly well but recently it's seemed fine to me.

For me all pages take 3+ seconds to load (generation time), which means reddit is easily the slowest site I visit.

Have you tried turning off all adblockers on your browser? Or is your time before all those come into play?

FWIW, a GET / (front page) while logged in takes 1-1.5s for me (TTFB). ~3s till load with ads blocked, ~5.5s with ads. Both numbers without caching, but that only seems to shave off about 200ms (most of the time is spent in JS and rendering the site).

Okay, thank you.

Front page does indeed take that. But many links (comment pages) take around 3 seconds as I mentioned (generation time, has nothing to do at all with my browser) and pages with hundreds of comments (like most links in the default subs) can easily take over 5 seconds to generate.

They are number 19 on Alexa and are seriously understaffed for the traffic they are getting. I think they are holding up just fine. All they monetize is Reddit gold and a few small ads, which I'm not even sure are real ads or just ads for more reddit itself

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