I wasted a day on CSS selector performance to make a website load 2ms faster
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It was at this point that the second penny dropped and I realised I’d been duped by a graphing misunderstanding and my own enthusiasm for improving frontend performance.
This is the Observer effect, “the disturbance of an observed system by the act of observation”.
I've been fooled several times by this effect, despite having been taught it early on in my school career. 😅