There are probably a few reasons it might seem like web apps are faster. A few that come to mind are perceived performance https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/d

There are probably a few reasons it might seem like web apps are faster. A few that come to mind are perceived performance https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Performance/Perceived_performance https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Performance/P... and optimization/offloading work to servers (caching, server-side rendering, APIs etc.).