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Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

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Can You Afford It? Real-World Web Performance Budgets

Performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. Most partners we work with are not aware of the real-world operating environment and make inappropriate technology choices as a result. We set a time budget of less than 5 seconds first-load Time-to-Interactive and less…