01
Budgets need owners
A performance budget without an owner is a wish. Assign a clear threshold per template — homepage, app shell, marketing landing — and a person who can block a merge.
When budgets live in CI, they become part of shipping culture instead of a quarterly fire drill.
02
Choose numbers you can defend
Pick targets grounded in your users’ devices and networks, not vanity Lighthouse scores from a developer laptop.
Slightly looser budgets that the team respects beat aggressive targets that get ignored.
03
Catch regressions early
Most performance debt arrives one image, one dependency, one third-party script at a time.
A lightweight weekly check — LCP on key pages, bundle size delta — keeps the product honest without slowing delivery.
