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Why Is Web Performance Undervalued?

is Web Performance Undervalued? Web performance is one of those things so fundamental to businesses that you would expect them to absolutely nail it. If consumers care about performance, which seems to be true, then in an efficient, competitive market you would expect businesses to be under immense pressure to optimize it.

Tammy Everts has been researching this for over a decade, and she's thankfully verified the common sense that people find slow websites extremely frustating. Music producer Rick Beato mainly uses spotify, despite his personal distaste for its effect on his industry, because he's got a huge backlog of playlists saved on it. The immense investment teams have put into learning, building, and tooling their current sites are undoubtedly the main impediment to better performance.

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