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Performance budgets that actually ship
How we keep LCP under 2s without sacrificing brand craft on marketing sites.
Why budgets matter
Performance is a product feature. We set LCP < 1.8s and CLS < 0.05 before visual polish lands.
export const budget = { lcp: 1800, cls: 0.05, inp: 100 };Practical checklist
- Font subsetting and
display: swap - Route-level code splitting for dashboards
- Image CDN with explicit dimensions