[javcasas]

You know, you went direct for the "bait" case, while ignoring all the others.

Progressive enhancement is often done to mask the fact that fetching the data takes an unacceptable amount of time, otherwise no effort would be done to mask it.

Your plan is to take that same unacceptable time, and add the server side render-to-html time on top of it, and that will improve it via...

[coneonthefloor]

The server rarely has to render/build the html. It will do it once and then cache it. 99% of websites don’t have real time data. They are just boring webpages.