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Code is written by web devs that are more designers than devs with little optimization skills on expensive high end hardware. Work is reviewed by executives on

Code is written by web devs that are more designers than devs with little optimization skills on expensive high end hardware. Work is reviewed by executives on expensive high end hardware. My experience anyway.

toastal 8y ago
That belittles designers -- designers understand what slow means too and can use Google to find a solution. I used to work at an ad agency several years. We were locked into Wordpress or Drupal with Bootstrap and some base plugins for sliders as well as a ton of stuff for 'SEO' and tracking. The amount of time allotted to deliver the project was actually pretty small. You would get a mild scolding if you even bothered to look at performance. A lot of these things are a part of the theme/plugin out of the box and may not be optimized, but the images and the content was usually uploaded by an intern or whatever and they never bothered with image optimization.