X is rebuilding its web app around one simple promise: the feed should appear before users give up waiting.
The company is rolling out a redesigned version of X.com that it says is substantially faster, starting with logged-out pages and gradually moving signed-in users over country by country.
From more than 22 seconds to 2.7
In a post describing the rebuild, X principal engineer Yagiz Nizipli said opening a profile over a slow connection used to take more than 22 seconds before the first post appeared. In the new app, X says that first post appears in about 2.7 seconds.
That comparison is a company test rather than an independent benchmark, but the size of the claimed improvement is significant for users on slow or unreliable networks.
One system instead of three
X says the new web app replaces three separate servers used for regular visitors, search-engine crawlers and link previews with a single system. The change is intended to reduce duplicated work and make the same experience easier to maintain across public pages and signed-in sessions.
The new version already serves logged-out visitors and pages that search engines can crawl. Signed-in users are being moved gradually, one country at a time.
Built with a small team and AI coding agents
Nizipli says five engineers built the first version in under six months with help from AI coding agents. More than 20 people have contributed since the end of September as the team expands the rollout.
That detail matters because X is presenting the project as both a performance upgrade and a demonstration of how a relatively small engineering group can rebuild a major consumer website.
Real Talk
Speed is one of the few improvements users feel immediately. A cleaner interface is subjective; waiting 22 seconds for a profile to load is not. X’s challenge will be keeping the new app fast as more logged-in features, personalization and real-time updates move onto the same architecture.
💡 IskraCore Take
X is making a credible technical argument for simplifying its web stack. The claimed 2.7-second load time is promising, but the rollout is still gradual and the comparison comes from X itself. The real test will be whether the speed survives everyday use across countries, browsers, slower connections and the full signed-in experience.
Source: X Engineering and reporting from The Verge. Company performance figures are presented as claims from X and have not been independently benchmarked by IskraCore.