Ask HN: What are you doing that your site is so subjectively responsive?

2 pointssamstave4 comments

Teach us please... the response time on load is wicked quick. How?

Perhaps they had a very novel idea: let's not send the user an empty page which then makes a request for several dozen javascripts from all over the internet and then loads the page content via javascript which then loads a framework which loads the page via running more javascript through a javascript template, but instead just sending the page without the added nineteen layers of unnecessary javascript.

And HN uses HTML tables for layout.

Esp on mobile... how achieving this?

I'm not sure who you're talking to, or what kind of sites you are talking about; but I think my site is pretty fast loading: https://learntemail.sam.today/

One "trick" that I've found helps to add place-holder gradients for images. So if you have a background image, add a linear-gradient or something as well. That means that there isn't such a jarring transition between the gradient and the image.

But really - keep the JS to the minimum and you'll be good. Also try and avoid using a large CSS "framework" - as that can easily add more bloat. If you start from scratch and only add what you need - keeping it very lean.

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