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I am confused, are you for or against FOUC? Or for optimizing against it?

My core industry is e-commerce, have been doing it for over a decade. Our fastest sites are the fully cached, single CSS file sites. You get sent a small amount of CSS and HTML, and you are off to the races. Javascript comes later, and is not necessary to operate the site until checkout.

What kills a sites speed for us is usually shitty CDNs and bloated assets, we don't have those. There isn't a single e-commerce platform popular today that I feel does this well, but that is because they are all enterprise platforms full of enterprise features.




I'm against FOUC when it matters, and for optimizing CSS when it's the right thing to focus on.

On hobby sites it doesn't matter. On high volume e-commerce it does.




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