"value":"\n <p>Due to an local outage, I've had no broadband connection and been mostly offline for the last few days.<\/p>\n\n<p>The only connection I've had is a weak 4G signal from my mobile phone that I've been able to tether from to check emails, etc.<\/p>\n\n<p>But this is slow and I struggled to load the majority of websites.<\/p>\n\n<p>Some would take a number of seconds or minutes to load, or fail.<\/p>\n\n<p>As websites and applications develop and grow, it's important to try and keep your codebase as lean and performant as possible.<\/p>\n\n<p>You never know what connection people will be using your code from.<\/p>\n\n<p>What if their broadband goes down or they're in an area with a poor mobile signal?<\/p>\n\n<p>They may not be able to download your large CSS or JS file, or execute the unoptimised database query.<\/p>\n\n<p>You can't assume everyone will be using a high speed Internet connection, so avoid feature bloat, optimise for performance and keep things small and fast.<\/p>\n\n ",
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"processed":"\n <p>Due to an local outage, I've had no broadband connection and been mostly offline for the last few days.<\/p>\n\n<p>The only connection I've had is a weak 4G signal from my mobile phone that I've been able to tether from to check emails, etc.<\/p>\n\n<p>But this is slow and I struggled to load the majority of websites.<\/p>\n\n<p>Some would take a number of seconds or minutes to load, or fail.<\/p>\n\n<p>As websites and applications develop and grow, it's important to try and keep your codebase as lean and performant as possible.<\/p>\n\n<p>You never know what connection people will be using your code from.<\/p>\n\n<p>What if their broadband goes down or they're in an area with a poor mobile signal?<\/p>\n\n<p>They may not be able to download your large CSS or JS file, or execute the unoptimised database query.<\/p>\n\n<p>You can't assume everyone will be using a high speed Internet connection, so avoid feature bloat, optimise for performance and keep things small and fast.<\/p>\n\n ",