Item — HN Reader

Ummm... not to be the wet blanket, but what business advantage is there to your blog loading 2.3x (or even 5x) faster? I understand you may occasionally be adding content that helps plug your work, but in general I am less concerned about the speed of a long article loading than I am the content being worth the much longer time it will take to read.

Maybe it's just me?

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There's not really a tangible business advantage. Sure, I put a brief plug in some of my posts, but that's not really the point. For me the whole point was just to explore new technology and push it as fast as it can go. I learned a lot from the process, I found it personally intriguing, and maybe I can even use some of what I learned in future business ventures. Other people might be able to take away something from it as well, however small.

(I know it's a pretty hefty post, hence the tl;dr at the top. No one is forcing you or even asking you to read the whole thing)

Depends on what you do. The company I work for does outsourced datacenter operations and application monitoring. Our site and our blog absolutely must be up at all times, period. If one of our blog posts made it to the front page of HN or reddit and we weren't able to handle the load, or God forbid we went entirely offline, there would be some serious egg on our faces. Why should potential or current clients trust our advice about how they can stay online if we can't do it for ourselves?