X says its updated web app is way faster
X is introducing a new version of its web app that it says is much faster than before, and it's now rolling out the updated app "one country at a time" for signed-in users. "Open a profile on X.com over a slow connection," principal engineer Yagiz Nizipli said in a blog post about the changes. […]
X has launched an updated web application that it claims to be significantly faster than its previous version, and it is gradually introducing the new app to signed-in users country by country. Principal engineer Yagiz Nizipli demonstrated the speed improvement in a blog post, stating that on the old app, a profile would take more than 22 seconds to load on a slow connection, while on the new one, the profile appears in just 2.7 seconds.
The primary engineer also provided technical insights, explaining that the updated app consolidates three previously used servers—those responsible for people, search crawlers, and link previews—into a single server. Security researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who had early access to the new app, confirmed its snappy performance and fast loading times, particularly noting that many aspects of the app appear polished.
The new web app is already active for the logged-out version of X.com and the pages indexed by search engines.
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