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Of course it did, it was less than 14 kB.

But in all seriousness, this sort of site is what I wish more sites were like. No ridiculous JS rendering engine, or 11 billion AJAX requests to 3rd party servers, just simple HTML and CSS.

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There were a total of 183 requests, many of them going to things like disqus, facebook, webmention, google-analytics, google accounts, and others.

For me the page rendered before many of those things were downloaded.

Clearly because it is about the FIRST 14kB ;P.

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