Initial load performance for React developers: investigative deep dive

January 24, 2025

Exploring Core Web Vitals, performance dev tools, what initial load performance is, which metrics measure it, and how cache control and different networking conditions influence it.

Spoiler alert: there will be no React in this article other than the study project. Today is all about fundamental stuff: how to use performance tools, an intro to Core Web Vitals, Chrome performance panel, what initial load performance is, which metrics measure it, and how cache control and different networking conditions influence it.

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Nadia Makarevich is a fantastic developer and communicator who has spoken more than once at our events. She focuses a lot on React (her book is called ‘Advanced React‘) and it’s in the title of the article, but this is relevant to any front end developer regardless of the framework they use.