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Re:Netflix: Removing client-side React.js improved performan... by littlestymaar on Friday October 27, 2017 @09:40AM (#15568120)
Life is full of trade-offs, gaining 1% more customers for a 10% increase in your engineering costs is not always a good deal. Being customer-centric is good, but not at all costs.
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Re:Netflix: Removing client-side React.js improved performan... by falcolas on Friday October 27, 2017 @09:48AM (#15568193)
At 1 second, it's closer to a 5% loss. 5 seconds, 20%. 10 seconds is a whopping 50% loss.

And yes, I've seen a lot of landing pages which are not viewable, let alone interactable, for 5+ seconds, an effect exacerbated by mobile.

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