From a while back, but still relevant as the speed of the GMail web-UI still has not improved.
[WayBack/Archive.is] Peeking under the hood of redesigned Gmail – Boris – Medium
Via:
- [WayBack] Craig Buckler on Twitter: “The new Gmail scores 2 out of 100 in Google’s Lighthouse audit and it’s essentially a CSS update to old legacy codebase. I really hope Google are working on a new version; performance and reliability is woeful.… “
- [WayBack] just-boris on Twitter: “I just published “Peeking under the hood of redesigned Gmail” …”
–jeroen