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Having PWA optimizations by default is a huge win for sites where speed is money (marketing sites, landing pages) and pretty good for the rest of us too.

It's great watching the ability to create fast sites by default built into modern frameworks like React rather than by returning to 90s web dev minimalism.

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Absolutely. The web platform and web development tools have gotten incredibly good but can require a herculean effort to understand what's possible, how to use the tools, and get good performance. As the post points out , even instagram is missing out on a lot of performance optimizations.

Gatsby aims to be a compiler of sorts to simplify making really high performance websites so even low-budget websites and webapps can join in the fun.

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