How I Made My Github Pages 100% faster.
One of the biggest drawbacks of hosting my personal website on Github Pages was the loading speed yet the solution to speed it up was so easy.
🚀 Easiest solution
Just create DNS A records with all (I repeat — all) of following IPs:
185.199.108.153
185.199.109.153
185.199.110.153
185.199.111.153That’s it! 🎉
Screenshot from my configuration (I’m using namecheap.com 💰). I will receive a small commission if you buy a domain 😉.
But, why?
My problem was creating only one A record and then not adding all of them which somehow caused a slow load of the website.
Honestly, I’m not sure why. Github’s DDoS mitigation technology performs long 302 Redirect which results in increased load time.
Anselm Hannemann wrote a detailed article about this, but I also found this thread where Github Ops commented on HackerNews.
Are there any other options?
You could also go with ALIAS DNS records, but this is the solution that worked for me.
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