[13]

That's rich, coming from The Verge.

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[skore]

My first impulse as well. As the article states, though, they're aware of and working on it[0].

[0] http://product.voxmedia.com/2015/5/6/8561867/declaring-perfo...

[13]

Why is their target 8 seconds to load the page? That's a ridiculously long time.