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every time someone says that a web site “feels fast” you must append “on my device” to the statement and a dollar must be placed in the works-on-my-machine jar

we must *measure* web performance and not rely on how things *feel*—what are we even doing, y’all

this feels like the silliest most mundane thing to say

@zachleat A lot of the "perceived performance" stuff feels like a sleazy way to make sure the user doesn't notice that you're chewing through their data plan & battery lifespan.

Which might make sense, in an evil genius way, if they're using it to serve more ads or run cryptocurrency frauds in the background. But mostly it just seems to be a way to make things look snappy when you show them to executives in a boardroom to get their sign-off.

Zach Leatherman :11ty:

@AmeliaBR demo driven development! Reminds me of those blur-up image techniques to trick LCP that were popular for awhile 😅