What Hive Can Learn From Its Web2 Family

by @iamkaye · 0 votes · 0.000 HBD

![Hive4_infographic.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/iamkaye/23uFMB8DNkfdaf1WmPuhqhyYtq2dCtX8KHUmf21XWaotWEJMLfCPK6hPRNLNhmCLZBWc5.jpg) ## Once Upon A Time in Web2 What if Reddit and Medium had an affair that resulted in an indigo baby? A rebellious child who didn’t blindly follow any rules, who had a strong sense of justice, and wanted to change the world. **That child became known as Hive.** Raised in secret by their cool aunt, Substack. --- ## The Family Secret Revealed But every family has a big secret that they only reveal when the time is right. For 6 years, Hive was so busy decentralizing everything that they forgot a major part of their DNA. A family superpower that was always there, but they never tapped into. The whole family knew how to grab the headlines, from search engines to the new AI agents crawling the web. So I decided to have a look. How can we learn from them? --- ## I Feel The Need For Speed Here are the baseline speed tests for our Web2 relatives: ### Medium PageSpeed: Performance 69 SEO 92 ![medium_pagespeed.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/iamkaye/23tSzWXZGTQNqYVp1AA9zExyUXEn3odJE8Sc83rL1uv2niLRER9qeM1sSxr1PjM3dtgG8.png) ### Reddit PageSpeed: Performance 48 SEO 69 ![reddit_pagespeed.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/iamkaye/Eo6SGJLzuA1zcA738uMy99F57paUFKWrLEn4XmbqgqR75ZoZPvyqWSfyjGca2uQDLrG.png) ### Substack PageSpeed: Performance 47 SEO 92 ![substack_pagespeed.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/iamkaye/23tSzWXZGTLQ89S5RDk98j9UURE4xWX9jvkmJQwn6syzqyVN4hmsoAByd6zpoLGryTJsG.png) --- I also checked our own frontends earlier this week on the 24th of May. ### Peakd PageSpeed 1: Performance 45 SEO 67 ![peakd_pagespeed2 2026-05-24 at 13.49.00.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/iamkaye/23tmmJoNnPEXFPmQX2T169iMketEU9zxtKCXYgwoAXirTKt8etAuxJYFq6rDSKUnuXuPW.png) ### Ecency PageSpeed 1: Performance 62 ![ecency_pagespeed2 2026-05-24 at 13.30.50.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/iamkaye/23tmm5srPngH5zBJrb8dH5yADd8NikpyL8hNYWLdujdUFHUGKupsZZymqNqsvBzUnXzRW.png) --- Then I decided to check again yesterday as it took a bit longer to write this post. I'm so glad that I did because there was a massive improvement in just 5 days! Someone was listening. ### Peakd PageSpeed 2: Performance 63 SEO 83 ![peakd_pagespeed3.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/iamkaye/23tSym8QEuYh3Q3hwGRQvKm3tyYTkioYJH5sR94ftufnJVY5EGnJht9UVtaRGGjt7MvBZ.png) ![peakd_pagespeed4.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/iamkaye/23tcNeS8U5NTuecULgL8nipS69TnZQuB1AYpVUktXxPvBvp95BNsNp5DQ125P3sjFwro2.png) ### Ecency PageSpeed 2: Performance 84 SEO 83 ![ecency_pagespeed3.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/iamkaye/23tSym8QEuYh3Q3hwGQaKiMFhm39DbbBGqmLiTr8yhdVKdwJ8xKsb5jWXfVcAAbctcsH2.png) ![ecency_pagespeed4.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/iamkaye/23tSzWXZGugQEJ2g2D5QWpvLLe715hMMERUCwTJGLrWMJuHoC9jYC9NpaxCergsCUWhZz.png) I also checked our video frontend 3speak for comparison: ### 3speak PageSpeed 2: Performance 52 SEO 92 It has the same SEO score as Medium. ![3speak_pagespeed3.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/iamkaye/23tSym8QF1RuJNgVk1x2wM3XjPCPvXYmn1uFqSSTuduPiWWn4xGJeFuNzhy6tgWBPFL5G.png) ![3speak_pagespeed4.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/iamkaye/23tSzWXZGZEiU78b2B7ygi3DgWxewEVUom24wYy3xxEHocYF3uaFdWweGczneQ4bbbWrT.png) It is absolutely amazing to see that Hive frontends are suddenly **faster** and performing better than their famous Web2 family. --- ### Platform Performance Comparison | Platform / Frontend | May 24 Performance | May 24 SEO | May 29 Performance | May 29 SEO | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **Medium** | 69 | 92 | — | — | | **Reddit** | 48 | 69 | — | — | | **Substack** | 47 | 92 | — | — | | **PeakD (Hive)** | 45 | 67 | 63 | 83 | | **Ecency (Hive)** | 62 | — | 84 | 83 | | **3Speak (Hive Video)** | — | — | 52 | 92 | We have successfully unlocked one par […]