I'd add one more section to this blog post: Disable Trackers.<p>It's a bit funny at how they go to such lengths to cut down their page load, only to have it doubled with third-party analytics. Regardless, a great blog post on best optimization practices.
Great to see them mentioning <a href="https://www.webpagetest.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.webpagetest.org/</a> one of my favorite tools for optimizing frontend performance.
Nice post, but one has to wonder if it is self defeating. In the end "speed" is just a matter of expectation management. Suppose you had a website that could complete all actions instantaneously. At this point I imagine speed would simply be redefined as the amount of time it takes you to find the desired action.<p>Surely there's a point where it's easier to just create a culture of patience than to pursue diminishing returns of shaving off nanoseconds.<p>TLDR: Is the better experience carefully crafted expectation management or simply being faster?