Web performance is probably/mostly valued as efficiently as it needs to be.
The numbers mentioned in the article are...quite egregious.
> Oh, Just 2.4 Megabytes. Out of a chonky 4 MB payload. Assuming they could rebuild the site to hit Alex Russell's target of 450 KB, that's conservatively $435,000,000 per year. Not too bad. And this is likely a profound underestimation of the real gain
This is not a "profound underestimation." Not by several orders of magnitude. Kroger is not going save anywhere even remotely close to $435 million dollars by reducing their js bundle size.
Kroger had $3.6-$3.8 billion in allocated capex in the year of 2024. There is no shot javascript bundle size is ~9% of their *total* allocated capex.
I work with a number of companies of similar size and their entire cloud spend isn't $435,000,000 -- and bandwidth (or even networking all up) isn't in their time 10 line items.
A leak showed that Walmart spent $580m a year on Azure:
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/walmart-spent-580...
These numbers are so insanely inflated, I think the author needs to rethink their entire premise.
The numbers mentioned in the article are...quite egregious.
> Oh, Just 2.4 Megabytes. Out of a chonky 4 MB payload. Assuming they could rebuild the site to hit Alex Russell's target of 450 KB, that's conservatively $435,000,000 per year. Not too bad. And this is likely a profound underestimation of the real gain
This is not a "profound underestimation." Not by several orders of magnitude. Kroger is not going save anywhere even remotely close to $435 million dollars by reducing their js bundle size.
Kroger had $3.6-$3.8 billion in allocated capex in the year of 2024. There is no shot javascript bundle size is ~9% of their *total* allocated capex.
I work with a number of companies of similar size and their entire cloud spend isn't $435,000,000 -- and bandwidth (or even networking all up) isn't in their time 10 line items.
A leak showed that Walmart spent $580m a year on Azure: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/walmart-spent-580...
These numbers are so insanely inflated, I think the author needs to rethink their entire premise.