Pragmatic Performance Budgeting
How to enforce practical page and bundle budgets without slowing teams down.
Start with constraints
Budgets work best when they are tied to user-visible outcomes instead of vanity targets.
What to measure
- Time to usable content.
- Interaction readiness for key flows.
- Route-level payload growth over time.
Team process
Introduce budgets gradually, automate checks, and review regressions with context instead of blame.