[sebdufbeau]

Quick look at the network tab shows two network requests, they are launched in parallel and take 250ms on my end.

The stunning part is one of these is to get a string of text that is displayed in a banner that is only visible if you scroll in the menu (like, at the very bottom). You could easily defer this call to happen once the menu is open and have 0 impact on the UX.

The other call, I have no idea what it does, but is launched both when you open and close the menu.

[yurishimo]

It’s likely a tracking event. I work for an e-commerce company and tracking menu open/close is a big metric.

[vlovich123]

But why would these be network calls that block the UI?

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

Are such metrics even meaningful? It sounds like metrics-for-the-metrics-god, useless unactionable information.