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Disable Turbolinks

See original GitHub issue

Description

Adding a simple data-turbo=false attribute to <body> on GitHub will make navigations use normal page loading instead of client-side transitions powered by GitHub’s “turbolinks”

For most users, the differences is likely negligible, that is until they are on a poor connection (airport/train/etc) where it will now be noticeably faster to open links in new tabs than let turbolinks do its thing.

Also see: https://jakearchibald.com/2016/fun-hacks-faster-content/

Screenshot

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/952783/179869111-c90a81c6-1f3e-4fb5-9fe9-28e16e32f2e9.mov

Example URLs

https://github.com (every page)

Issue Analytics

State:
Created a year ago
Reactions:74
Comments:11 (10 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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fregantecommented, Jul 20, 2022

Thank you for opening an issue, I would assume that that’s not the case for everyone and that there must be a reason to use ajaxed loads if GitHub invested so much on it over the years.

While this change would be beneficial to Refined GitHub (ajax causes a myriad of issues) this can’t be part of Refined GitHub.

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fregantecommented, Jul 20, 2022

I tried it. Turbo feels faster and less janky. What you’re experiencing in that tweet isn’t normal, the request is failing.

Native

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1402241/179943354-f1065a38-e1fb-4a0b-88d9-05a69c6277b0.mov

Turbo

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1402241/179943378-84595870-06ac-48cf-aca6-93c3b75f592f.mov

My connection (public wifi) is above average and the native version still doesn’t feel as fast as turbo’s

      Ping   17 ms
  Download   216 Mbps
    Upload   209 Mbps

For good measure I also tried via hotspot. The speed is comparable, except that the native version has white flashes.

      Ping   103 ms
  Download   5.9 Mbps
    Upload   8.2 Mbps

Native on mobile

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1402241/179945409-17e997c0-d7f7-433f-8011-e098ab893efa.mov

Turbo on mobile

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1402241/179945365-8f2081f5-b2d5-4620-ae17-cf383a9b21f2.mov

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