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But when someone clicks on a link from a mobile browser and nothing happens - it leaves the viewer with the impression that things are broken when in reality the exposed use case was just not considered (or not deemed important). This also tells a great deal about the author in my opinion.

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Then it's lucky the author has done well in their career despite it :)

As an aside, if the author is around, you could make 90% of the site's font rendering become immediate very easily. The biggest things would be self-hosting the FA and Google Fonts stuff, and moving the TypeKit include to an async JS approach.

After that, you could restrict the preloader progress bar to just the balloon portion.

True, that life is short and they are decent at cost/benefits.

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