I just checked twitter's network log on a single tweet by John Carmack. - 131 network calls - 280 kilobytes of data received - 4500ms total network time Tha

I just checked twitter's network log on a single tweet by John Carmack. - 131 network calls - 280 kilobytes of data received - 4500ms total network time Thankfully, the vast majority of other websites aren't nearly this bad, but we're trending towards twitter as an industry, not away from it. I try to write API calls that provide broadband utility and return lightning fast by always making sure my critical path gets a fair shake for optimization, but I know there exist calls out there in react land that take my 220ms response and spend an extra 7 seconds transforming it to populate a (paginated) table on the UI.