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the **spiciest** web performance leaderboard would rank saas company home pages making “blazingly fast”-esque claims 
put those INP and TBT scores in big bold letters 
It should be fair to post screenshots like this for companies that tout “the fastest frontends” on their home page—especially notable that this is *not* a temporary regression. It’s been like this for a long time—why is no one talking about it?
Here’s the source code between the doctype and the <title> for this site:
×26 <link rel="preload">
×36 external <link rel="stylesheet">
×91 external <script src>
This is not a nuanced point I’m making. We’re not debating the finer points of complicated web performance trade-offs. This is a very slow web site.
@zachleat@zachleat.com“This doesn’t look good” indeed.
@zachleat I have found that the real indictment is the showcase section of these sites. The speed of the things they choose to crow about reflects the lived values of these orgs.
@slightlyoff $300M buys a lot of marketing momentum
@zachleat If only it bought speed.
@slightlyoff I used to think the go-to metaphor was trucks https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/110181262326744689 but now I think I’m going to use US passenger rail—slow, ineffective, expensive…