@nikitonsky great post! So many of those examples are awful, especially because of how many of those sites were probably doing okay… until they injected shit tons of marketing JS. It’s a huge bummer to see how the app-ification of sites has led to such a negative first-load experience.
Just makes me… want to work for those companies and try to fix stuff.
The PornHub vs YouTube comparison is especially great, because the different monetization models result in vastly different outcomes.
@sangster somebody mentioned on HN that Pornhub just can’t allow “load once, serve from cache” model since they are usually run in private windows