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Using Google AMP to build a Medium-style Jekyll site that loads in 65ms

Shown by ageitgey on Mar 15, 2016. Click the card to turn it over.

279points

95comments

#76of 2,264 in 2016

Top 4%of 2016 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

8 positive, 25 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 19 critical, out of 53 comments about the project. Thread score -0.11.

Idea: 6 for, 9 againstPerformance: 2 for, 5 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 against

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Page feels fast and scrolls smoothly
From 1 comment
- Wow, that actually does feel fast. Loads quickly and scrolls with no frame lag on my low end laptop.…
  vortico on HN
Good boilerplate for AMP blogs
From 1 comment
- Really nice idea and good boilerplate to start with. It would be perfect as a starting point for a customer that want an AMP blog and probably in the near future it will be…
  fibo on HN

Plain HTML could be as fast without AMP
From 2 comments
- Is there a reason you can't just build the site properly in the first place to load fast? AMP is an unnecessary step in doing so. It's nothing special. All AMP is, is a…
  kup0 on HN
- Serving static, stripped down HTML under 65ms is not that hard. You really don't need any AMP for this.
  pmlnr on HN
Benchmark comparison to React site is unfair
From 1 comment
- A few points - 1. A direct comparison to Facebook's react Github page may not be fair. Their page is 10 times heavier than the blog page - of course its going to be faster. 2.…
  inian on HN
Load times not reproducible
From 1 comment
- I am not able to reproduce the load times reported as benchmarks. My test runs on WebPageTest put start render and document complete at around the 700ms mark (Chrome 49 / no…
  atdt on HN
External fonts slow the page
From 1 comment
- Neat. Get rid of the two external fonts and the blank author image and it will load in half that time.
  jacquesm on HN

Include real content in the example page
From 1 comment
- Very cool. Might be nice for the example page to include real content--even a copy of the readme would suffice. But being able to click through various posts would give a better…
  alariccole on HN
Support Webmention
From 1 comment
- Maybe support for Webmention[1] would be a nice addition? Medium is sort of a community after all and I think an alternative should have technology for talking to other sites.…
  unicornporn on HN
Add syntax highlighting support
From 1 comment
- Does it support code syntax highlighting? (I'm not already familiar w/Jekyll).
  wyldfire on HN

What is the difference from controlling JS yourself
From 1 comment
- I still don't get what the difference is between this and being self-controlled with the amount of js you add to your html
  midgetjones on HN
Could Lektor or Pelican support AMP
From 2 comments
- Nice project. I wonder how much work it would take to extend Lektor to build AMP pages.
  frakkingcylons on HN
- This is really cool, can't wait for somebody to also do a similar thing for Pelican!
  djvdorp on HN

Grav CMS Medium theme
From 1 comment
- I also created a Medium inspired theme but for Grav CMS: https://github.com/mblode/grav-theme-medium Grav CMS is an open-source CMS. Therefore, it is a better option than Jekyll…
  mblode on HN
Static React pages
From 1 comment
- You can use React to render static websites. You get the nice component model and the speed of static content. You can take a look at the react native[1][2] website for an…
  vjeux on HN