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title: "Discussion on \"Lighthouse used to punish useful preloads. Framer spent a year fixing that.\" | Hashnode"
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# [Lighthouse used to punish useful preloads. Framer spent a year fixing that.](https://devlog.apogeewatcher.com/lighthouse-used-to-punish-useful-preloads-framer-spent-a-year-fixing-that?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Framer spent roughly a year working with the Lighthouse team on a quiet but expensive bug: sites that painted quickly for real visitors still looked slow in PageSpeed Insights. Their engineering write

devlog.apogeewatcher.com 9 min read

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