They are supposed to be targeted at static high performance blogs.
Yet their own blog is 15MB in size and over 100 different http requests.
See the YSlow report for their blog site below.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.netlify.com/C6fG3uTg
It receives an "F" rating.
Isn't this kind of bloated website the exact problem Netlify is suppose to solve?
I host my blog with their service, I get thousands of visitors a day and it's always extremely fast. I love the simple deployment and the features they give me, and I evangelize their service to everyone.
Try it out, it's fantastic, despite the large landing page.
We do have image optimization built-in but it won't change images' size (in case you link externally - we don't want to move your cheese) or do anything lossy.
So - we have not resized and chosen optimal formats for those images and we are working on doing it right now :)
But it's not just the blog I linked to above that's slow, it's even the blog post of this very HN post.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.netlify.com/KdCXA8bB
54 http request (26 of which are JS) just seems kind of nuts for a blog post.
Not trying to make you guys look bad.
But clearly asset merging and image optimization are needed.
But yes, we all agree that we should do a better job of making our website leaner and we do have a bunch of changes planned around that (and we're hiring!).
I compared it to apple.com (since someone mentioned it in a lower comment) and apple.com had noticeable page loads whereas Netlify's blog didn't.
I'm sure the site is fast on a regular connection though.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/http-2-for-web-developers/
Is YSlow (which warns about too many HTTP requests) still updated? There's been no updates for 3 years here:
See the comparison:
https://www.dareboost.com/en/comparison/598b93730cf2aac95f75...
That's about the same size as _Walden_ by Thoreau. Seems large.