I’ve never hated any video software like I hated BlueJeans.

It’s everywhere in Ireland, too. “Black Friday week” etc etc.

I’m not really sure about optimizing Flutter for web, but the biggest thing you can do to improve Time to Interactivity is to ship less code (and fonts, and optimized images, etc). Source code payload size is a big deal for websites in a way that it isn’t for apps.

To give you a relative sense of what impact sizes can have: I recently shrunk the gzipped size of the bundle Etsy uses for messaging by 50kb and it was a major win for performance.

Etsy also uses a much smaller number of fonts in order to avoid paying that much of a performance cost.

And, uh, why do you have over a megabyte of fonts loaded? What do your total network download size look like?

Ah, interesting. Is that the gzipped size or the minified size? Gzipped would be the size over the network, and minified would be a much larger number indicating size after it’s decompressed that’s more relevant to how much memory is being used and how it will perform on slower devices.

From what I’ve seen, it produces… extremely large JavaScript bundles. Like, 3MB just for hello world. I’d be curious to see what your experience has been, especially for a growing codebase.

You wouldn’t want a website built with Flutter, lol.

But at the same time, you also want to protect the things you can. Then some junior engineer on a two week deadline gets a VP to agree that the whole website can get 500ms slower on every request just for one feature that’ll fail to do anything but never be cleaned up.

It’s like the plot of Last of Us, except your doc is the child and the zombies are varying groups of people desperately trying to stop you from shipping a feature that will make them die