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Scott Jehl has a tongue and cheek graphic posted on the topic of the history of web performance. The point Scott makes here is that web performance hasn’t changed all that much. Scott highlights 2013 as a dividing line, which I assume is around the time JavaScript-heavy interfaces start to take shape. You always have to respect your environment.

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