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There is some relatively small merit to this article, web developers should spend as much or more time optimizing as time spent meeting product requirements.

But web developers don’t typically define requirements, like which and how many tracking services need to be implemented or how many social network integrations are needed.

Functionally a site should work and be accessible without JavaScript. A website should use minimal semantic HTML. A website should not require hundreds of kilobytes of CSS. That’s all realistic.

But to imply that web developers define what exactly ends up on a web page is idealistic.