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by bastawhiz 3013 days ago
> And who cares about a little bit of an extra HTTPS delay, when just adding Google analytics and Facebook Pixel to your site can increase the delay by over 400 ms?

That's how you might feel if you live with fast broadband internet. A lot of the world is stuck with high latency, low-bandwidth connections. Applications that are incredibly lean will still be slow if the server is in San Jose and the client is in, say, Uganda.