Here's what I do sometimes when I want to browse Newest Nodes quickly: I click through to a node that looks interesting, read all of the replies, vote, then go back two pages to the Newest Nodes page that I started from. Yes, everything on the right hand side will be out of date (Chatterbox, XP Nodelet, Other Users), but I figure that's probably way faster than asking the server to re-generate the entire Newest Nodes page.

Under Mozilla on W98 with a DSL connection, the last fetch of Newest Nodes took 7.97 seconds -- and about 80-90% of that was waiting for a response. That's pretty good response -- and I thank pair Networks for their hosting everytime I log on to PerlMonks.

--t. alex
but my friends call me T.