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Performance Improvements

Performance Improvements (2026-03-19): Core Web Vitals and API latency improvements: P95 page load down 38%, chat first-token latency down 25%.

·4 min read·Honestify Engineering

Feature area: Core Performance

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This release covers Performance Improvements Version 1.8.1, shipped 2026-03-19. Status: shipped. No breaking changes.

Summary

Core Web Vitals and API latency improvements: P95 page load down 38%, chat first-token latency down 25%.

Dashboard and chat routes regressed during feature sprint; mobile users on 4G saw multi-second TTI. Bundle splitting, image optimization, database query tuning, and edge caching for static entity pages.

What Changed

Bundle optimization

Improved

Dynamic imports for chart and editor modules.

Query tuning

Improved

Composite indexes and batch loaders on hot paths.

Edge caching

Improved

CDN cache headers for public role, skill, and guide pages.

P95 page load

Before

3.2s

After

2.0s

Dashboard route, mobile 4G throttled

Chat first token

Before

1.8s

After

1.35s

P95 after KB retrieval

  • Bundle optimization — Dynamic imports for chart and editor modules.
  • Query tuning — Composite indexes and batch loaders on hot paths.
  • Edge caching — CDN cache headers for public role, skill, and guide pages.

Why We Built It

Dashboard and chat routes regressed during feature sprint; mobile users on 4G saw multi-second TTI.

We prioritized this work because AI quality feedback correlated with missing context in this surface. The fix needed to be durable—not a patch—so we addressed root causes in Core Performance rather than symptoms alone.

Engineers, recruiters, and hiring managers all benefit when Honestify behaves predictably in production. This release reflects that bar.

User Impact

Lighthouse performance score median 68 → 91 on key routes.

AudienceHow you benefit
EngineersFaster profile setup, clearer AI answers, less manual rework
RecruitersMore complete profiles and reliable share links when candidates use Honestify
Founders / hiring managersBetter signal on candidate preparation and skills alignment
Platform engineersImproved observability and clearer error surfaces

Relevant skills: system design, observability, typescript. Target roles: backend engineer, devops engineer, full stack engineer.

Technical Highlights

  • next/image for all content imagery
  • React Server Components on catalog pages
  • PostgreSQL EXPLAIN-driven index adds
  • OpenTelemetry traces on API handlers

Changes covered by integration tests and Playwright smoke paths on critical user journeys.

Before

Performance Improvements: before vs after

Before

Monolithic client bundles; N+1 queries on profile dashboard; uncached MDX entity pages.

After

Route-level code splitting, dataloaders for profile API, ISR on public entity catalogs.

Users moving from the previous experience should notice route-level code splitting, dataloaders for profile API, ISR on public entity catalogs.

Screenshots

Future Improvements

What we are building next

  • Service worker offline read for guides
  • Prefetch on hover for related entities
  • GraphQL batch API for dashboard

Known limitations

  • · Chat latency still bound by upstream LLM provider

Feedback welcome: Reply via in-app feedback or support—especially if you hit edge cases we did not cover in this release.

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