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Lol the irony of this. Very slow TTFB from Australia.. over 1 second

The blog is already behind Cloudflare, and this page is static content, why don't you just add a rule to cache the page?

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Not sure, but might be using a free plan, as many do. It would only load from a hot cache in your region on subsequent hits and have other such limitations to make it affordable.

I have 1 second to spare. Optimization is good, but shaving milliseconds at all costs always sounded a bit pointless to me, except for real-time audio communication.

Do you have 5 seconds to spare? 10 seconds to spare?

The question is more how often rather than how long. For example, this page: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/elisp.ht... takes nearly 15 seconds to fully load for me, but then I can live for literally weeks without having to refresh it (ie. other than on sporadic Firefox restart). That's quite obviously different in the 1/10-of-chapter-per-page style of docs that Rust books seem to like.

If the content is worth accessing, certainly :)

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