I used to work at a place where the front-end guys had a big push to get the page load times down below a minute. People paid tens of thousands of dollars for a

I used to work at a place where the front-end guys had a big push to get the page load times down below a minute. People paid tens of thousands of dollars for a subscription to it. The alternative was that you pay another company a couple million and wait 6 months for a binder to arrive in the mail, so the customers were content with the page load times. The backend team was more worried about keeping daily processing and offline reports below 24 hours. The offline reports were essentially SQL queries.