how is bearblog so fast? (opens in new tab)

this website has incredibly fast load times, so much so that i felt compelled to enquire\. words from the man himself : The answer is that I've spent a lot of time optimising exactly page speed\. The biggest factors are small page sizes, and edge locations\. Essentially, when you request a page from a Bear blog, it usually serves it from a server nearby to you, instead of the main Bear server which is half a world a way\. Light can only travel so fast\. There's other stuff like gzip compressi...