not true in practice. https://github.com/nolanlawson/optimize-js … is one reason.
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you may, for example, want to include some extra bytes so subsequent interactions don't trigger 1/
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network fetches. those bytes will have a net positive impact on the early user experience 2/
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but the "bytes-over-wire" metric will tell you to force another XHR. 3/3
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in my experience, this is a second optimization. cutting critical path bytes makes a bigger diff.
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I have seen even critical-path bytes (which nobody really measures) really mislead people.
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more directly, if critical-path-bytes was the metric, why is everyone measuring the size of libs?
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because they're often on the critical path?
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definitely!
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