I don't know how they perceive the performance. I see 41 network requests. That's 2.1 MB of CSS over the wire, blocking rendering and hurting painting and loading speed. There's 400 KB of Tailwind, 87 KB of general CSS, plus another 200 KB of other general CSS. They need to embrace functional CSS properly. I'm sure they could have a single CSS file under 80 KB that renders everything.
2.1MB is a huge most of the world where the internet speeds are not gigabyte etc. Yes, storage wise it's not a lot, but it's extra 5 seconds or so the user needs to wait for the site to load.
There are only a few countries in the world where 2.1 MB extra would add (barely) more than 1 second to site download based on the country’s median internet connection speeds. The vast majority of countries would see less than <100ms from 2.1MB.
And the bigger thing here is that this is all cached after it’s downloaded the first time.
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And the bigger thing here is that this is all cached after it’s downloaded the first time.
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Download speed isn't the only thing that matters