FastestWebsiteEver

If you want fast initial load, then there is packet.city [0], "the greatest website to ever fit in a single TCP packet." :-) It also has a few other optimizations to make the response as fast as possible that are discussed on its github. [1] [0] http://packet.city/ (Warning: loud audio) [1] https://github.com/diracdeltas/FastestWebsiteEver

The real fastest website: https://github.com/diracdeltas/FastestWebsiteEver

I guess the leader is missing "packet.city" an entire website in a single TCP packet weighing in at 1.2kb Site: http://packet.city/ Source: https://github.com/diracdeltas/FastestWebsiteEver

That's interesting, but #1 seems like a bug in your shared hosting service. 20 seconds for a single request isn't even usable, and an unoptimized Django config doesn't start anywhere near that slow. A $5 Linode and stock Django should be able to get you the 500-1000ms. Also, I'm not sure how you're measuring 250 us, but I doubt it's meaningful number, because in practice either of these two numbers will be greater than that: 1) The network latency to send as single packet from the user to your server. This is usually more like 10 ms, or 40x what you're quoting. Great link I saw on lobste.rs -- a website in a SINGLE PACKET: https://github.com/diracdeltas/FastestWebsiteEver 2) The time it takes the browser to render the page (e.g. loaded from the memory of a local server). Static HTML might render in 250 microseconds, but I doubt that an