Initial load of content takes a long time #10

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witten · 2017-12-10T20:03:39Z

witten commented

2017-12-10 20:03:39 +00:00

As a user, when a go to the URL for a page I'm interested in, I want the page to load quickly, so that I don't have to sit around looking at a blank page or a loading spinner.

If a particular piece of content is not cached, loading it the first time takes several seconds. Which is too long. If this project is to be competitive with either native HTTP or server-side IPFS gateways, then initial content load needs to be much faster, on the order of hundreds of milliseconds at most.

Just looking at a network inspector, a lot of this time seems to be due to waiting on bootstrapping. However, even after the bootstrapping servers show up in browser network logs, there's still a meaty pause after that to actually load the content.

As a user, when a go to the URL for a page I'm interested in, I want the page to load quickly, so that I don't have to sit around looking at a blank page or a loading spinner. If a particular piece of content is not cached, loading it the first time takes several seconds. Which is too long. If this project is to be competitive with either native HTTP or server-side IPFS gateways, then initial content load needs to be much faster, on the order of hundreds of milliseconds at most. Just looking at a network inspector, a lot of this time seems to be due to waiting on bootstrapping. However, even after the bootstrapping servers show up in browser network logs, there's still a meaty pause after that to actually load the content.

witten added this to the Vaguely useful prototype milestone 2017-12-10 20:07:24 +00:00

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Reference: witten/intergalactic#10