[Charles]

I saw the article title in my email, I thought “oh no, Cloudflare got cold feet on TTFB” and then opened the page and…

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ttfb-is-not-what-it-used-to-be/

[Jacqueline]

Trash talking TTFB for 10+ years!

[Sean]

Why TTFB doesn’t make sense
TTFB is a widely-used metric because it is easy-to-understand and it is a great signal for connection setup time, server time and network latency. It can help website owners identify when performance issues originate from their server. But is TTFB a good signal for how real users experience the loading speed of a web page in a browser?

[Ruth]

lmfao just giving TTFB the decade-long finger at this point

[Shirley]

They gave Google’s Core Web Vitals a shout out though, which is slightly disappointing, since nobody even knows what they mean.

[Alexis]

They gave Google’s Core Web Vitals a shout out though, which is slightly disappointing, since nobody even knows what they mean.

well the reason Cloudflare always hated TTFB was because they are hype metrics from SEO bros, so telling people to embrace Pagespeed instead is kinda conflicting

I miss the days before Google invested in Cloudflare, Inc.

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