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I hate slow websites. A month or so ago I had to log onto Delta.com. I was largely unimpressed with the speed in which it loaded. I could wait for seconds until text would appear. I would wait even longer for the site to become responsive.
This is what I hate about browsing the Internet. A user should not have to wait for a page to download. So I made it my life mission to optimise this blog. I am currently averaging 600ms from start to ready. This is largely impressive (top 5% of load times) for a dynamic site such as my own.
I've gotten to the point on this blog's design that I cannot make loading any faster. My next step is to make loading appear faster to the user.
This lead me to create a jQuery plugin that I call Lazy View. With this plugin, elements will fade into view as the user moves around the page.