5l1v3r1 / fastestwebsiteever

ultrafast single TCP packet audio/visual experience

what is this?

the greatest website to ever fit in a single TCP packet

optimizations

• HTTP compression: choose DEFLATE over GZIP because most browsers accept raw DEFLATE output without a header or checksum so it's shorter/faster. #yolo
• send response immediately after TCP session init: avoids 1 round trip (not to spec, seems to confuse Chrome results in Wireshark).
• SO_BUSY_POLL: asks the kernel to poll for packets for a given amount of time.
• TCP_NODELAY: disable Nagle's algorithm.
• echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_low_latency: TCP stack makes decisions that prefer lower latency as opposed to higher throughput.
• favicon: reduced gif to 1/2 original frame count, applied lossy LZW compression.
• HTML mangling: closing tags are for losers.
• bespoke webserver written in C
• remove GIF comment extension block, saving 36 bytes (thanks Samy Kamkar)

who made this?

eV ([email protected]), yan ([email protected])

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credits

• visuals based on http://www.p01.org/128b_raytraced_checkboard/ by Mathieu 'p01' Henri
• favicon based on http://cultofthepartyparrot.com/
• thank you to Candy Japan for the generous sponsorship! surprise Japanese candy boxes twice a month!!