Yeah, as developers we want to optimize the first page the user hits but we don’t often think about how the user gets there. Just because it is fast for us, practically sitting next to a server does not mean others will experience the same. Suddenly optimizing that last 100ms until first paint becomes insignificant.
The real shocker after creating that page, was to learn that no other URL Shortener makes use of a CDN :0
The real shocker after creating that page, was to learn that no other URL Shortener makes use of a CDN :0