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At what point is an app “fast enough” and, you should stop looking for perf gains?

Apart from biz metrics (read money from users) - how do you measure performance impact on users?

𝓓𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓾𝓲𝓼𝓱𝓮𝓭 Engineer at C̶o̶i̶n̶b̶a̶s̶e̶ Yahoo. Yes

Building Design Systems and frontend tools at your favorite internet company like it’s 1999.

Rendering time metrics are tricky because in actuality it’s really more about perception, in application, than true wall clock time. Is the A/B testing just showing that it’s slower to load, or that it’s definitively worse for end users? 

It’s said, humans can only perceive at a max rate of 13ms.

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We’re actually getting push back that we need to make things more performant before A/B testing… “too much revenue on the line” kind of thing. We’re pushing to get them to test the assumption that “slower ALWAYS means lost value”, but this is a big machine…