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BTW, this googlesource.com is probably the fastest Google website and much faster than typical website. 7.5 KB of html, 5.2 KB of CSS, tiny images and even 8.7 KB font. And no javascripts at all!

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the way the internet should be.

And it uses markdown instead of html, that's pretty neat.

How does that work? Are they using CSS to render and format it?

Here's the project for it, which is also on the same site: https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gitiles/

There are two parts on googlesource.com, the ones without "-review" suffix (like the link in the OP) are on gitiles, and the ones with "-review" suffix are on gerrit.

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