To be really clear, the performance of GitHub’s website has basically always been terrible. I don’t know why. It has bothered be forever. And it’s weird - GitHub doesn’t actually render much content. But it often takes seconds to load that tiny bit of content. I often clone entire repos locally rather than browse them on GitHub just so I don’t have to wait for their webpage.

To continue the comparison, cyberpunk can render night city in 16ms. Which makes me embarassed for GitHub that they can’t render a list of files and a static markdown readme in under a second.