Something felt slow Our product backlog list page was sluggish. Not dramatically broken —...
Something felt slow
Our product backlog list page was sluggish. Not dramatically broken — just… off. The kind of slowness you notice when you switch from a fresh demo tenant to a real one with actual data.
So I measured it:
8 items: 206ms TTFB (Time To First Byte)
67 items: 675ms TTFB
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