The first thing I noticed about the new facebook layout is how long it took to load.
I thought this was a fluke, so I restarted firefox and reopened the page, with a primed cache.
wait… what? 387KB to redownload and OVER A HUNDRED http requests?
oh and this doesn’t count the two redirects you get from www.facebook.com -> www.new.facebook.com -> www.new.facebook.com/home.php which are NOT cached.
This was Firefox 3.0.1, zero plugins, on a Mac Pro 2.66GHz with 4GB RAM running 10.5.4.
Here’s what this looks like on the fastest browser I know of, the webkit nightly from tonight, r35401.
Much faster for the initial uncached request, but still way unacceptible.
r35401, with a primed cache:
Best yet, but… here’s yahoo, which has a lot more data on the front page than my facebook.
…and cached yahoo:
I think facebook needs to get a bit of a clue please!
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