Why Your Client's Website Feels Slow Even Though You "Optimized" It

You ran Lighthouse. You got a 90. You compressed the images, deferred the scripts, and added lazy loading. And yet your client keeps saying the site feels slow. And honestly? They're right. This is one of the weirder gaps between what performance tools tell you and what users actually experience. I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and there are a few things that I think most of us are underweight. Lighthouse scores ≠ user experience The lighthouse runs in a controlled environment. Throt