The reason is that I have no account on HN and rarely comment. I create a new account a few times a year because I don't remember or care about my previous account.

I could have made an account named john2026 and you would not think twice. Instead, I let people know upfront what type of account this is. Quite the opposite of what a true shill would do.

I got a Lighthouse score of 99 in Chrome. Believe it or not, I won't spend more of our time on this. (relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/386/ )

First Contentful Paint 0.7 s

Largest Contentful Paint 0.9 s

Speed Index 0.7 s

It makes a lot of requests, and some are stopped by my ad blocker, but most of them don't seem to make an difference. It is almost instant from my point of view. I disabled the ad blocker and didn't notice any visual difference.