Technology

34691 readers

110 users here now

This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.

Ask in DM before posting product reviews or ads. All such posts otherwise are subject to removal.

Rules:

1: All Lemmy rules apply

2: Do not post low effort posts

3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff

4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.

5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)

6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist

7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

MinutePhrase@lemmy.ml

791

Modern web bloat means some pages load 21MB of data - entry-level phones can't run some simple web pages, and some sites are harder to render than PUBG (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 7 months ago by schizoidman@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

152 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

My front page is 613KB with Wordpress. Moral of the story, you don't have to use a static website generator to have light things.

[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Can I achieve the same with vue.js or flutter? I need to learn this

[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

Yes. You can. I have a personal site that is using nuxt static site mode and it renders extremely fast and clean output.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And how do you plan to manage your posts, database etc. and render stuff in those? You still need some backend solution like Wordpress, you can use vue as a frontend library for it… or vanilla JS, or jQuery..

[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah, for that I'll just dump some fast API or flask thing. Vue or flutter will just handle the front end

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So... you are aware that FastAPI and Flask will always be significantly slower than Wordpress... because Python, always running processes etc.?

You're building a simple website / blog just use Wordpress, it will output most of the pages into plan simple and fast HTML, then add a few pieces of vanilla JS or Vue (if you're into that) to make things "fluffier". Why bother with constant XHR requests when you're just serving simple text pages?

With Wordpress you'll also get all the management, roles, permissions, backend for "free" and you can always, like sane people, cache the output of the most visited pages. Wordpress also provides a RESTful API if required.

[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

No I mean, I wanna make a full project but without bloating the front end website

[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Check out https://250kb.club all performance sites focused on speed and small size.

[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

Or maybe the 512kb.club a more reasonable balance between 250 club and the 1mb club.

Also with a view: jankfree.org for a similar focus on performance.