> The problem with web page performance is people believing a page would render faster if, instead of sending HTML, you send a giant blob of JS which, after alm

> The problem with web page performance is people believing a page would render faster if, instead of sending HTML, you send a giant blob of JS which, after almost choking a parser to death, then does a XHR to actually fetch the content and then starts to render templates into actual HTML. "It's asynchronous, and that makes it soooo fast!" So many people drank that async kool-aid, but didn't understand that the network is slower.