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Yeah this is something people love to gloss over. On good 5G the connection latency might be 15-20ms to some topographically "close" server. Realistically that's an absolute minimum and you'll see 50-100ms latency to actual servers.

When work depends on those resources it can't even start until all the data is returned. Far too often nothing can happen until a case are of resources gets returned. Then there's the fun outlier of some slow AdTech script that finally returns, screws with the DOM, and causes a layout and repaint.

It's just today's "What Andy Giveth, Bill Taketh". Great job all around everyone.




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