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Comment by apalmer | Hacker News Reader

I liked it as a demo, but was incredibly slow to load for me, and I dont see anything that indicates a large amount of data is being loaded

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If you look at the source, you can see why it is slow. Tons of js linked in there, right in the <head>, no minification. They even embed jQuery twice on there (1.3.2 then later on 1.6.2). Also, lots of inline styles on the page. Looks like they are using a CMS, not sure which one though.

Nevertheless, that 3D rollover effect and infinite scroll in all directions is pretty fun.

> If you look at the source, you can see why it is slow.

Good hunch, but not quite correct. To see why it is slow, you need to look at the Network Tab in your browser's debugger window. Their server is choking on requests.

Partially correct, the number of requests (all that JS, CSS and images) without minification and compression enabled is making this not only twice the size (in Kb) that it needs to be, but the waterfall of blocked requests is terrible. See http://scans.zoompf.com/s/7180a12152cdf3dbd5087c2f7d09813d/r... for a cursory look at the optimization opportunities. I did LOL at the HTML comment near the end:

I'm on a 100 mbit up/down connection, and it was still really slow.

All I see is the Win8 spinny dots. I can't tell if it's actually going to load something, or if a connection is being blocked (by my gamut of ad and data prevention plugins) and I'm waiting for a timeout.

Funny, I was literally just thinking it was incredibly snappy for all the large images, and fairly intricate styling.

unfortunately it because the servers are getting pretty hammered at the mo :/

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