With Lessons From Google, The Washington Post Has Brought Its Page Load Speed Down to Milliseconds

Under the ownership of Jeff Bezos, The Washington Post has become a fount of editorial innovation. There's Arc, The Post's home-cooked content management system that's now being sold to other news organizations. The Post was the first major daily newspaper to adopt HTTPS, a move that is gaining adherents throughout the news industry. And it's built an engineering corps 200 staffers strong.

Further evidence of that prowess is now on display in the form of a "progressive web app," a new effort from The Washington Post to cut down on the time required for its journalism to display on mobile devices.

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