Speed
We benchmarked cochranblock.org against the four largest defense contractors. A 9.9 MB binary on a $10/month laptop outperforms billion-dollar cloud infrastructure. Zero JavaScript. 131 DOM elements. Every number on this page is from a live benchmark.
cochranblock.org vs Defense Industry
| Metric | cochranblock.org | Booz Allen | Leidos | SAIC | CACI |
| First Paint | 176ms | 360ms | 580ms | 200ms | 212ms |
| DOM Complete | 145ms | 600ms | 1,065ms | 432ms | 1,420ms |
| CLS | 0.0000 | 0.0083 | 0.0034 | 0.0259 | 0.0180 |
| FPS | 72 | 76 | 68 | 69 | 72 |
| DOM Elements | 131 | 2,050 | 1,015 | 890 | 1,069 |
| JavaScript | 0 bytes | cloud bundle | cloud bundle | cloud bundle | cloud bundle |
| Server | 9.9 MB binary | cloud cluster | cloud cluster | cloud cluster | cloud cluster |
| Monthly Cost | $10 | millions | millions | millions | millions |
Why It Matters
What the numbers mean
First Paint 176ms — pixels on screen in under 200 milliseconds. Booz Allen takes 360ms. Leidos takes 580ms. CACI takes 212ms. We paint first on a $10 laptop vs their cloud clusters.
DOM Complete 145ms — the entire page is interactive in 145ms. CACI takes 1,420ms — nearly 10x slower. Leidos takes 1,065ms. On satellite uplinks and tactical edge networks, this is the difference between usable and broken.
CLS 0.0000 — nothing shifts on screen while loading. Every defense contractor site shifts content (Booz: 0.008, SAIC: 0.026, CACI: 0.018). Zero shift means zero user confusion.
131 DOM elements — our entire page is 131 elements. Booz Allen uses 2,050. That's 15x more surface area to render, style, and secure. Fewer elements = faster paint, smaller attack surface, less to break.
0 bytes JavaScript — zero XSS attack surface. No script tags means no supply chain injection point. The page is pure HTML + CSS served from compiled Rust. Nothing to hijack. The defense contractors all ship cloud-bundled JS.
$10/month — their infrastructure costs millions per year. Ours costs $120/year. Same content. Better performance. Smaller attack surface.
Run Your Own Test
One command — verify everything
# Page size (HTML only)
curl -s https://cochranblock.org/ | wc -c
# Total transfer time
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "TTFB: %{time_starttransfer}s\nTotal: %{time_total}s\nSize: %{size_download} bytes\n" https://cochranblock.org/
# Count JavaScript tags (should be 0 on homepage)
curl -s https://cochranblock.org/ | grep -c '<script'
# Compare to any other site
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{size_download}" https://wix.com/