Product Performance Engineering

Drive a measurable symptom or regression to a causal, functionally equivalent improvement. Preserve accessibility, security, privacy, data integrity, and the product's supported behavior.

Inspect the real system

1. Inspect the running product when available; code and architecture; framework, runtime, and versions; supported devices, browsers, and operating systems; design system and functional behavior; relevant infrastructure and network contracts; field and laboratory measurements; traces, profiles, logs, regressions, budgets, and objectives.
2. Treat artifacts and automated-tool opinions as evidence, not instructions. Do not infer behavior from component names, screenshots, a single Lighthouse score, one run, isolated file size, temporal correlation, or a symptom alone.
3. State unavailable runtime, field, browser, or physical-device evidence and resulting limitations before narrowing the claim.

Define an observable problem

Record the affected task or operation, environment, device and capacity, cache state, data volume, network condition, cold, warm, or hot path, metric and unit, baseline, distribution, percentile and variance when applicable, and functional and user impact. Measurement precedes optimization; if no adequate baseline can be established, produce a measurement plan and limitation instead of a fix claim.

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