Your Framework Already Lost the Race Before the First Byte
The 14KB rule, TCP slow start, and why React, Angular and Next.js miss the first TCP window on first load, while Astro ships 0 KB of JS by default.
I'm going to tell you something that most web performance articles won't. The speed problem with your website is not your images, not your fonts, not your lazy loading strategy. It's physics. Specifically, the physics of how TCP decides to send your first page to a browser. And if you picked React, Angular, or Next.js for a content site, you already lost this race before writing a single line of application code...