Google+ | Google Web Showcase - Google Developers
Paul gives the lowdown on the Google+ responsive relaunch. They set themselves this performance budget:
- 60K of HTML,
- 60K of CSS,
- 60K of JavaScript,
- 60 frames per second animations, and
- 0.6 seconds latency.
And this bit is crucial:
One of our major rules was that all our pages needed to be both server-side and client-side rendered. With server-side rendering we make sure that the user can begin reading as soon as the HTML is loaded, and no JavaScript needs to run in order to update the contents of the page.
