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We didn't actively push the performance talk forward. It was born of necessity - the age of the internet has caused our attention spans to shorten (this is even researched - on average, the world's attention spans have gotten lower over the years).
Page loads are important. As your eBay example shows, even 100ms can make a huge difference in the human perception.
And yet, as times move forward, the human expectation also rises - we want bigger, better web apps, with more capabilities and we have gone so much in that direction that many web and desktop apps have become basically the same thing and provide similar functionality to what in the past you would only expect to see in a true application (think Google Docs!).
And with that expectation I just mentioned, came the ever increasing bundle size, which increases load times, which cause us to need to focus on performance more. It's not that we are performance maniacs - its that we have a need to catch up with the times and expectations of the modern tech era.
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We didn't actively push the performance talk forward. It was born of necessity - the age of the internet has caused our attention spans to shorten (this is even researched - on average, the world's attention spans have gotten lower over the years).
Page loads are important. As your eBay example shows, even 100ms can make a huge difference in the human perception.
And yet, as times move forward, the human expectation also rises - we want bigger, better web apps, with more capabilities and we have gone so much in that direction that many web and desktop apps have become basically the same thing and provide similar functionality to what in the past you would only expect to see in a true application (think Google Docs!).
And with that expectation I just mentioned, came the ever increasing bundle size, which increases load times, which cause us to need to focus on performance more. It's not that we are performance maniacs - its that we have a need to catch up with the times and expectations of the modern tech era.