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Discussion on: Why don't sites put more effort into web performance?

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Ghost • Edited

That's a really good question!

I'd honestly say:

  • because not a lot of developers/engineers that work on the site would use it on a regular enough basis to notice poor performance. Even then, they often work close to the host so it's no where near as major. You'll notice internal tools often run super fast though.

    • there's no single 'one-size-fits-all' kind of 'way' of speeding up sites from what I've found. It takes a lot of man hours to do huge amount of research to really optimize sites for people who don't get good load times.
    • it can be expensive. Edge CDNs can be hella expensive, and hard to maintain if they're in-house.

I'd love to see it more as something that developers/engineers are more dedicated to, though. Nowhere near getting as much exposure as it needs. Kudos to the team at Dev.To though, for making the site so fast for everyone!