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Update: Moved about 7 small images and css into S3 and page load time is now < 3 seconds with 380 users on site. I'm about 90% sure that my efforts caused the improvement.

It's still up, but it's super slow with > 20-60 second page load times. I just moved some images into s3 which made it a bit faster. There are currently 267 people on the site according to google analytics.

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Multiply google analytics users by k to get a more accurate number, where k is a percentage of readers using uBlock or some other blocker that blocks google analytics. Ie k=1.5 for a tech heavy audience :)

Edit; Anecdata, almost all my signups come from users who block google analytics.

Wow.

I suggest tossing the site logo in s3 too (which timed out when I was trying to mirror the page at archive.is), along possibly with the JS.

As for the article, my brain felt a bit like it was in freefall, and continuously played sounds of glass and crockery breaking as I read. Thanks for the intellectual stretching exercises :P

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