Comment by snypher
4 days ago
This page was 9 seconds of white screen before the entire thing loaded at once. I'm on Starlink. Hopefully you get a chance to correct this in the future, as I'm really supportive of projects like yours, but if the page was linked from a top-5 article or something I would have hit the back button already.
Totally - we're not advertising yet and usually only dealing with very local traffic at the moment, didn't expect to get tens of thousands of hits from linking to it from a hackernews comment!
The backend is an azure appservice running on a single low-spec worker at the moment, wasn't planning on enabling scaling before doing a hard-launch but here we are.
I am sorry, I always forget about the 'HN effect'!
First Contentful Paint at 12.0 seconds here, and I'm on fiber.
On my phone on Comcast cable it was like 3 seconds for me.
It's a great marketing strategy. People without broadband access will truly feel it when they visit.
Also was a few seconds of white screen for me. And I'm on fiber