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by pspeter3 3220 days ago
Page load performance is still a top focus of the company. While page load has improved significantly over the last six months, we know it has a long way to go. Our two largest performance issues are initial HTML time and bundle evaluation time. We're actively working on a solution to both of them.
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Those may be your biggest challenges but he is suggesting that even once it is all loaded it is slow. That should probably take priority over initial load time for an application people are likely to keep open all day. Just look at how long gmail takes to load, it is like forever but doesn't matter nearly as much as how quick it is once loaded.
Thanks for pointing that out. Our belief is that the majority of in app actions are now fast but that there are still exceptions. We're constantly trying to find new exceptions and remove them. Hopefully this thread alerts us of new ones.
Curious: What's your strategy for measuring application performance? Would love to hear more details on how you're tracking the effect of your efforts.
At a high level, we try to collect real user metrics for everything we can. Interana helps us analyze that data in near real time. For more detail, I hope we can write a blog post soon to answer your question.