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Re:Conservative web development by timr on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @03:23PM (#17912017)
Honestly, it sounds like you're set up better than 95% of the webapps I've encountered (and I'm including some big, famous names in that list). Big, well-resourced dev teams make the mistake of assuming that "works on my box" is the definitive measurement of site speed.

But also, let's be real for a moment: define "latency". Is 150ms your (client-measured) connection time? Your render time? Your usable-page time? Again, most webapps are lucky to get HTML back to the user in under 300ms, and if your 150ms metric is "time to server-side render", then you very likely aren't.

Re:Conservative web development by jlg23 on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @04:59PM (#17912749)
150ms are client-side read. But without any js-triggered modifications to the DOM tree, this is pretty much the render time (rendering is 2ms on my not-too-beefy laptop).
Re:Conservative web development by timr on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @08:40PM (#17914166)
Yes, that's quite good. It's pretty common to find server-side actions that take longer than 150ms to just return the page, and 2ms render times absolutely smoke most JS-framework pages.

I stand by my original comment (it's better to avoid loads than to assume you're fast), but good on you for getting those latencies down.