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Improving Performance on Twitter.com

• micahgoulart 14y ago
  They are geniuses... who would have thought that rendering HTML on the server might be faster than loading up a page then having JavaScript request the server again for the data then render it?
  • bcherry 14y ago
    To be fair, the previous version included the JSON data for the page alongside the JavaScript in the initial payload, so it wasn't waiting for a second (redundant) data fetch (for the main home timeline page that's cited in the article as seeing gains).