Darn it!

From my perspective, open source and radical transparency go together. When we offer open-source repo plugins to help site owners with some performance problem, we explain what we do, and how we measure what we do, to the best of our abilities.

All this performance scrambling we do: it’s about our human users, delighting them and respecting their time.

Spoofing browser performance measurement tools? Just how does that help our users? Maybe it sells more premium plugins, sure. But does it help the plugin customers help their audience?

To the extent there’s any demo-hacking going in here, it breaks my heart.