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  and you can literally see every packet as it's 
  transmitted, because the page is rendered bit by bit.
Beg pardon?


Presumably he's talking about incremental rendering[1], though I couldn't get it to work on Fefes Blog by manually throttling using the dev tools.

It's pure, unstyled HTML -- you could read the site by piping curl into less -- and it should easily render incrementally; I'm just not sure how well it works when you use gzip and TLS (and I couldn't not use TLS when I just tried).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_rendering




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