Tux Machines

Tux Machines a Little Faster

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 13, 2024

Speeding up the sites some more

THIS morning at 8AM (UTC) we deployed cache related changes to this site, resulting in slightly faster speeds under certain conditions. From Tokyo (Japan):

Techrights is still a little faster. It uses similar code, but its scale is smaller:

Tux Machines cached

Techrights cached

We hope that for most readers it still takes under a second to load pages fully (it's doable and a persistent goal; being a static site isn't enough if pages are heavy). Today's networks are fast enough to give almost instant pageloads, even without a CDN (typically outsourcing). █