Benchpress
Performance studyA public teardown: a deliberately slow analytics dashboard, profiled and rebuilt from 11 seconds to 900ms.
The idea
Every slow app is slow in the same few ways. Benchpress builds a realistically bad dashboard — N+1 queries, bloated bundles, waterfall requests — then fixes it in documented, measurable steps.
The approach
Profile first, touch nothing without data. Fix the data layer, split the bundle by route, move aggregation server-side — each step benchmarked and written up so you can see exactly what mattered.
What it proves
0.9s
final load, from 11s
-92%
bundle size on first paint
12
documented optimization steps