# diracdeltas/FastestWebsiteEver

ultrafast single TCP packet audio/visual experience

Repository: https://github.com/diracdeltas/FastestWebsiteEver
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/fastestwebsiteever
Homepage: http://packet.city/
Language: C
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2024-08-13T03:35:02+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3399, "days_push": 750, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1409, forks 100 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:38.701592+00:00)

## What it is
A novelty website that fits entirely within a single TCP packet, served by a bespoke webserver written in C. It uses aggressive tricks like raw DEFLATE compression, TCP_NODELAY, SO_BUSY_POLL, and out-of-spec early responses to minimize latency.

## Use cases
- serve a website that fits in one TCP packet
- learn extreme HTTP latency optimizations
- study low-level TCP tuning in C
- demo a minimal custom webserver
- explore DEFLATE vs GZIP compression tradeoffs

## When to choose
- you want a fun demo of extreme web performance optimization
- you're studying TCP/HTTP internals at the byte level
- you need a minimal C webserver example

## When to avoid
- you need a production webserver with real content
- you want spec-compliant HTTP behavior
- you need maintainability or features beyond a single page

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: http-server, compression, networking
- domain: web-development, performance, developer-tools
- platform: c, cli
- tags: novelty, single-packet-website, low-latency, tcp-optimization, demo, linux

## Member repositories
- diracdeltas/FastestWebsiteEver (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:38.701592+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:38:31.664938+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/diracdeltas/FastestWebsiteEver (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:38.701592+00:00, sha 1d56aece84ed)
  - homepage: http://packet.city/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:51:52.011218+00:00, sha 51896e0e07e2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.