“Muse searched REI, eBay, found alternatives, loaded checkout page, and the whole thing took about 90 seconds.”
“Average page load time at that time was like four minutes… we brought it down to under a second of load time. And obviously the traffic exploded, Sequoia invested”
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Re-architected the website, hired a new technical team, and reduced page load time from ~4 minutes to <1 second, leading to traffic explosion and Sequoia investment
4 minutes → <1 second
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