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This is a neat tool.

Hacker News hits 100%

Reddit fails w/ a score of 23

Looking forward to using it to test against my sites.

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Reddit is intentional though. They really, really, really want you to use their app instead.

[Daily Standup]

“Hey guys, you know how we need more user data to monetize but no one wants to use our crappy app? Why not just make the website horrible and constantly nag them via dark patterns to install our app?”

PROMOTED!

Reddit can't even handle copy-pasting into the comment box unless the cursor is at the end of what's typed already. It starts to run up my i7 if I have just a few of those comment boxes open at once.

Navigating back to the list of submissions, which are already in the DOM and are literally visible through a transparency, takes like nearly a second.

Of course the back button doesn't work in most cases. It's pretty embarrassing if it's not intentional.

Ah, the familiar Facebook approach.

For years reddit was unusual in not offering an official app.

There is two alternative reddit frontends, both of which should be smaller/faster

https://github.com/digitalblossom/alternative-frontends#redd...

I always use old.reddit.com - I find the default site virtually unusable

The classic forum style is part of the appeal to me. It walls off typical social media users in favor of people willing to embrace the platform for what it is, not what they are trying to make it via IPO.

If the communities I am part of (or built) weren't so entrenched and interesting I'd be happy to move from the front page of social media back to the front page of the internet.

On mobile (iOS) I use an app. Just not their app.

Apollo is the best thing since reddit bought Alien Blue and shut it down.

A blog post I wrote a few months ago is apparently fast in general, but I get a bad score on pagespeed insights because I'm pulling in 3rd party scripts. The scripts I'm using? An embedded youtube video and some fonts from google fonts. I'm not sure why pagespeed insights says first paint is delayed behind youtube's javascript loading. Sounds like something I should fix.

Shame on me for using google's other services in the recommended way I suppose.

[1] https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjosephg.c...

Hah. Kindof same. Ran Lighthouse tests on my project and on the evaluation it complains about gtag and Google Sign In being slow to load.

I'm shocked they are allowed to report this. Interesting that they are allowed to be independent and not obfuscate the fact that the other Goog services are so slow.

That's always been the case. Having too many Google Ads can even downrank you in search results for being a bad user experience.

For Youtube embeds, I prefer Lite Youtube Embed[1] by the magnificent Paul Irish.

[1] https://github.com/paulirish/lite-youtube-embed

Oh that’s excellent. I’m surprised YouTube’s official embed code doesn’t use these tricks.

PageSpeed even moans about Google Analytics scripts!

I have old.reddit.com at ~40 (varies between 35 and 45) on mobile, and 80 on the desktop.

Apparently the reddit home page is getting hit hard by all the award icons, which google really doesn't like:

* they're really large, some are animations and they're 48x48 full-color (rendered at 12x12), meaning some of them are close to 100k

* they're (a)png which google dislikes

* they're unsized on the page (they're sized in CSS) which is dinged on grounds of layout shift

* they're not deferred so the awards below the fold are still fetched upfront

Google's estimates also seem over-optimistic e.g. they advertise potential savings of 94K (out of 95.2) by using next-gen formats for https://www.redditstatic.com/gold/awards/icon/Illuminati_48...., but plugging that in an AVIF converter yields a 27K file with neither the animation nor the transparency worker (no idea if it's an issue with ezgif's converter or firefox's support).

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