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The site is indeed instant, those performance tricks does work (inline everything, botli compression, cache, edge network like cdn), BUT the site is also completely empty, it shows nothing except a placeholder.

Things can easily change when you start adding functionalities. One site I like to visit to remind myself of how fast usable websites can be, is Dlangs forum. I just navigate around to get the experience.

https://forum.dlang.org

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> One site I like to visit to remind myself of how fast usable websites can be, is Dlangs forum. I just navigate around to get the experience

Interestingly, for me each page load takes a noticeably long delay. Once it starts loading all of the content snaps in almost at once. It’s slower to get there than the other forums I visit though.

Another super super fast website is https://www.mcmaster.com/

I made a fast usable product page recently https://www.buyadagger.com/

It's crazy how unusable most gun websites are for browsing what's available. This though is the perfect example of what I really want when browsing catalogues.

Doesn't work without Javascript?

Correct, all the filtering is done locally in the browser, and the deploy is purely static.

If PSA had let me use affiliate links, I was planning to do the work to SSR in a Cloudflare Worker, but they declined and I decided to call the project where it was.

Some sites can be very simple and yet quite useful. For example https://rawdiary.com/ always impresses me with its speed.