It all becomes clear as you read down it, but initially, you do think “Oh, something went wrong”. I was having a conversation with Micah before he publicised it, and the intention is to slowly build things up to see what a minimal set of HTML, CSS and JS looks like, with an eye for usability, accessibility, performance and appearance. I was busy feeding him some response times on various browsers from where I am, as internet performance is less capable than many other places. In a way, I perhaps represent an ideal test candidate for what he is trying to establish.
For what it’s worth, the fastest browser turned out to be Opera at just over 300ms. That said, 299ms of that was latency, with the actual download taking only 0.50ms