Share some blazing fast and lightweight websites

Hi 👋

I like ultra fast websites, built using vanilla technologies.

But I don't know a lot of those websites. Help me discover more of the "small web" by sharing small & fast websites here, please :)

Comments

[Louis Low]

I have a small sceptical about the Small Web. I was reading the whole article twice to get a better picture of it. It starts by comparing the difference between the big tech companies like Facebook and Google monopolizing users data with how Small Web is not.

In the middle, it put strong words and blame the decentralized technologies is not as good as the Small Web and the architecture of decentralized is some sort of fake.

At the end of the article, it promotes their web hosting solutions. But from my understanding, Small Web just like any Netlify or Digital Ocean or even close to the traditional web hosting company with special marketing and packaging. The marketing elements for such a diversion should be dev tools and articles.

Users could never know if their data been used by the Small Web. Since the data is not hosted by users itself with their machine, such as using the decentralized technologies for example.

But, frankly, the Small Web product is nothing wrong. It just another product that highly polished with marketing strategies.

[Corentin Bettiol]

I just like the "small web" term, and I think that not all the article content is great (but a big part is).

When I say "small web", I think about websites built to be fast, with optimized images, no javascript (or just small scripts made to make navigation easier), no ad tracker, and a small handcrafted html/css interface.

Maybe I should write "small websites" in the post?

[Louis Low]

It is because you added the link Small Web in the post content, assuming people might want to read it that could be related to it. And then, when people came back to your post, both contents are a little different meaning. I hate to say the word (misleading), but, it's alright.

[yaythomas]

pypyr.io/

[disclaimer: I made it!]

plain js, plain css & html 5. pretty much all images svg. Given the power of modern flex + grid, really no need for css frameworks.

Lighthouse score is 99-100%.

I deliberately stayed away from any frameworks - so no bootstrap, no jquery. Mostly because I wanted to see how far the "vanilla" technologies before it becomes necessary to add in some framework.

[Taufik Nurrohman]

You could utilize AJAX feature on top of generic website to make it looks super fast psychologically. I have a script for that. It is called F3H. This script is similar to Ajaxify but with more features, especially the turbo part.

Docs and Demo: taufik-nurrohman.js.org/f3h

Real Life Usage: dte.web.id