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Discussion on: The case for performance (Part 1)

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Ben Halpern

It blows my mind how little thought performance is given.

A static or pre-cached webpage served from a CDN will be pretty damn fast. The lop-on features that force things to get worse and worse and worse until the site is unusable really need to be checked before they are added in.

Super great series.

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Joshua Nelson ✨

Yes, what really gets me is the fact that it's actually worth it from a business perspective a lot of the time! It often isn't given roadmap time or effort, but performance is a feature too, in the sense that it literally increases conversions, click through rates, and user satisfaction.

I think that coming up with actually meaningful metrics and targets to help to demonstrate this fact to people will help. Being able to get to a point where you yourself can see both an improvement in your metric, and the business goals – it should be clear that the ongoing investment is worth it.