Idn, I'm not impressed with the initial load time. If that site was served as a static page that was recompiled when a new article was added, it would be significantly faster. But at the same time, subsequent loads would probably be a little slower. Which one is more worth it?
You can do both! Prerender the front page server side, then switch to super-fast PJAX once the JavaScript is loaded. This nifty technique is called... wait for it... "progressive enhancement".
Airbnb's recently released Rendr library (https://github.com/airbnb/rendr) is a great attempt to make this easy for complex web apps to do.
