Page weight matters An Article by Chris Zacharias blog.chriszacharias.com Many of us are fortunate to live in high bandwidth regions, but there are still large portions of the world that do not. By keeping your client side code small and lightweight, you can literally open your product up to new markets. Speed is a feature performance
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