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 it’s a lot on the initial load, yes, but what you have to understand is that once all that is executed, it’s still slow.
@theadmiral @zachleat I was getting angry until the last few words. Glad I persevered.
@robjwood @theadmiral we all went on this roller coaster together