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Re: One Soft Navigation per Page Load

Kerrick Long Kerrick Long
December 1, 2025
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I’ve been making SPAs for over a decade, but I’ve always held the opinion that it’s only the right tool for web apps, not websites. I’m glad to finally see some evidence in support of this viewpoint!

Stuart Langridge

RE: toot.cafe/@nolan/1156227060694

Those of you who are not web devs (good choice) may not quite appreciate what this means.
You know how websites are loads slower now, and don't work without JavaScript? Well, one of the big (dubious) arguments made in favour of this transition was that you download a bunch more code first, but then it'll make everything faster once you're there. It's front loading.
What @slightlyoff has shown is that this is not relevant, because people don't stay on the sites long enough to get the benefit.

November 27, 2025, 9:51 pm 73 boosts 79 favorites

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