> First load is important for any public facing site. A 7-10s delay on first load means you’ve lost the game no matter what happens on a second load, because th

> First load is important for any public facing site. A 7-10s delay on first load means you’ve lost the game no matter what happens on a second load, because there often won’t be one. I hear this said a lot, but have never quite understood it myself. What industries have pages that are hit by new customers and need to be a big complicated SPA? Any SaaS can have a landing page/login page which it can use to background load assets needed for the service itself. And if someone already knows of and wants to use your service they'll wait a few seconds. Online shops maybe?