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I don't know how in the world anyone can claim "2x performance" when clicking on a navigation element, saying out loud "one Mississippi, two Mississippi" and then having the content show up counts as "performance"

Want to see something else neat? Open the dev-tools and just wave your cursor over the navigation elements and watch the browser spray GET requests to some json files. I guess they made it Cloudflare's problem, but ... I'm glad I didn't try to view this on mobile



This is a demo blog post that loads every demo across the site, so it won’t be light.

Making claims like this is like claiming SpaceX can’t go to space because their lobby isn’t aerodynamic.

Also the prefetching is Next.js standard practice, not only does it have nothing to do with Tamagui but it’s is good for performance.

The homepage gets excellent lighthouse scores despite being an order of magnitude more complex than your average app due to showing off every feature in the library.


It was my understanding that the site itself was written in the framework, so if I have that experience while reading the docs, it's not a great selling point, right?

I can see we just have different expectations for a website, so I wish you all the best with your project


There’s a difference between a blog post showing off every feature of something vs the thing itself in practice - but even then, I think you’re wrong. Even this super long blog post showing much more than your average app/site would is fast and has a >80 Lighthouse score.

If you want to dispute the performance claims please do! But don’t spread FUD. You mis-construed prefetching for some sort of accidental performance mis-step when it’s the opposite and improves performance, without seeming to even realize what it is.




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