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Holy 1997, that's an ugly webpage.


You know, Wodehouse would have put that much better.


“She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season.”

There's also the litmus test of the Wodehouse phrase: "The unpleasant, acrid smell of burnt poetry."

Quotes filched, after a short search, from http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7963.P_G_Wodehouse , which holds some pages of good ones. Unfortunately, a few are poorly sourced and look like cuckoo eggs to me.


For me the HTML has loaded in 400ms, the three images after ~700ms. The text has nice contrast and a nice site. You could argue about the centering though. There are no distractions, you can read the text in calmness. I like that!

In comparison I opened a random nytimes article from its frontpage: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/us/politics/secret-donors-...

It took 4 seconds until the text was even shown and the site did not stop loading until 12s after I started. And now it seems to send a heartbeat every 60s to some tracker to tell it that I am still on the page.




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