But Brian, we *need* [gestures at 400K of JS]! How else can we do [ hamburger menu | carousel | janky parallax scroll animation | store finder widget ]????https://twitter.com/brianleroux/status/1250425101595467777 …
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Replying to @slightlylate
Without going into *all* the reasons, it's really complicated to get a simple static website at a large company. You need to implement server versions of all the tools marketing wants: optimizely, whatever personalization product they use, ad tracking, etc.
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Replying to @ysaw @slightlylate
most corporate web teams aren't resourced to build all this stuff, they can't meet their requirements without using libraries and commercial products. And a lot of the time the slow stuff isn't even added by devs, it's added by content authors via tag managers
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Replying to @ysaw @slightlylate
Most corporate web teams absolutely would rather a fast static site but getting that done is often a trade off that they can't sell to their management
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BTW, I understand all of this. I work with enough teams to help them through this decision tree that the texture of the pushback is like an old baseball glove. Before you get into the real causes, the front-side justifications are still eye-rollingly hilarious tho.
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