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July 25, 20263 min readEleven App Studios

Mobile performance is a product decision

Every hundred milliseconds you add to first paint is a percentage of your funnel. Performance budgets belong in the brief, not the retro.

Budget before build

We set LCP, CLS, and script-size budgets before the first screen is designed. It changes what gets designed.

Measure on real devices

A mid-range Android on a congested network is the honest test. Laptops lie.

Guard the budget in CI

If a regression can merge silently, it will. We fail the build instead.

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