https://twitter.com/triskweline/status/798443082740023296
> Valve's Steam Store renders on the server, uses ancient jQuery 1.8, loads 12 unminified JavaScripts.
> It moved 3.5 billion dollars in 2015.
> Valve's Steam Store renders on the server, uses ancient jQuery 1.8, loads 12 unminified JavaScripts.
> It moved 3.5 billion dollars in 2015.
There are real metrics from top industry leaders[1][2] to prove that loading time has a clear impact on conversion rates.
>Consider this when you need 5000 npm modules and a team of 10 to compile your startup's login form.
Unminified JavaScripts files and bloated JS are both wrong, once again: not sure of what's the point of comparing both.
[1] https://medium.com/@vikigreen/impact-of-slow-page-load-time-... [2] http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/11/marissa-mayer-at-web-20....
You’re arguing from a hypothetical alternate reality where they could have been better off, but there’s no point in that. It’s like saying “Sure Usain bolt can run a sub 10sec 100m.... but if he’d gone into politics perhaps he’d made even more money and been twice as famous, we have no way of knowing, so how does that sub 10s 100m really prove anything about whether or not he’s fast?”
Usain bolt is fast, and that code made money. It’s just facts, accept them.
That's a piece of factual information for you, yet it has no bearing in this discussion.
Valve's revenue might be factual, but it also does very little to further this discussion. Valve has almost no effective competition, and people will put up with a lot of shit from them because of it — which makes their JS engineering practices largely unrelated to their revenue.