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That’s highly dependent on the type of product / customers you have. If you’re running an online shop selling ice cream, going from 100ms to 2ms list sorting speed isn’t gonna get you more sales. I’d argue most online products are ice cream shops to some degree.

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The data seems to indicate otherwise: https://www.gigaspaces.com/blog/amazon-found-every-100ms-of-...

> A 2017 Akamai study shows that every 100-millisecond delay in website load time can hurt conversion rates by 7%

> 10 years ago, Amazon found that every 100ms of latency cost them 1% in sales

With SSG and to a lesser extend SSR, React has close to zero impact on the initial page load. It’s all just HTML.

Would be fun to see that revisited.

Also misleading to imply a linear relationship. There will be a marginal cost, but no reason to assume constant.

That study doesn't prove anything.

You're not amazon

That said, having a performant website is nice, both for developer experience and for users.

I have to say I pick solid because it's so damn fast (okok, and because it has an API which is React-like but without the crap doesn't make sense or an extra custom runtime just because)

Try to do an a/b test and see the results for yourself. Also remember that those 100ms can in some scenarios turn into 300ms if you are not running on state of the art hardware, like most developers does.

That’s just your gut feeling, not what actual data shows.

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