"I removed the Disqus comments"
Wouldn't that by itself be enough to account for the download time differences?
Wouldn't that by itself be enough to account for the download time differences?
"I removed the Disqus comments and the many many lines of CSS from the old site and replaced it with only a couple of lines of CSS alongside a CDN-hosted copy of Twitter Bootstrap. Finally, the Go site is deployed to a free instance of Heroku and the MongoDB hosted on a developer version of Mongolab, while the old Django site was hosted on a Webfaction shared server. All these things influence the validity of a direct speed comparison between the two versions"
Indeed, all these things _invalidate_ the direct speed comparison between the two versions.
No, author, Go had very little to do with your page load times. Both Go and Django are going to serve a simple blog at the same speeds.
If so, disqus loading is 'postponed' to after page loading? Or is it taken into account?
I have Disqus on my Jekyll/Octopress blog and still get millisecond loads.
Still, Disqus has basically a no/low-impact
Disqus loads almost entirely async.