Hacker News Reader

Can someone please do the same for Hacker News? For a text-based site it's dog slow.

Now this is interesting...I just and it was 106ms for the main document, and ~60ms for the rest (including favicon).

But then I tested in Incognito, and it was 350ms for the main document.

Disabling cache doesn't make a difference. I tried logging in on Incognito and boom, fast again. Somehow the backend is 3x the speed when logged in. I'm guessing anon users have to go through some extra bot checking or something.

If anything, anon users should consume fewer resources, as dang's occasionally suggested people log out during heavy usage:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31027882>

Yeah, it's definitely counter-intuitive. Anon users should be able to benefit from caching in a way that logged in can't. That's why I assume it's bot detection or something along those lines.

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