---
title: "Making the world’s fastest website, and other mistakes"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/making-the-world-s-fastest-website-and-other-mistakes-pgspwsaoa
source_url: https://dev.to/tigt/making-the-worlds-fastest-website-and-other-mistakes-56na
type: article
source: "DEV"
published: 2022-03-16T14:44:31.737Z
updated: 2026-03-15T07:33:20.600Z
tags: ["css", "general-programming", "html", "performance", "react"]
reading_time: 8
upvotes: 16
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Making the world’s fastest website, and other mistakes

**[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 8 min read · 16 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Kroger’s ecommerce sites use React, Redux, and their usual symptoms of too much JavaScript. A new design system inflicted enough Tailwind to hurt desktop Time to First Paint by 0.5 seconds. This was after investing in Server-Side Rendering, a performance team, and automated regression testing.

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**@corem96** · 0 upvotes

> this is just a great research on almost every aspect of web app production

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