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pavelkaroukin
on March 5, 2012
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A single tweet page is 2.0 MB
And it is funny - AJAX-related technologies were promoted exactly to make sites more lightweight and more responsive..
bergie
on March 5, 2012
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You could argue that Twitter is more responsive than it would be using server-generated HTML pages. But the initial app download is much bigger than it would be with that method.
5l
on March 5, 2012
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What Twitter seem blissfully unaware of is that they've traded download speed for rendering speed on lower end devices.
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