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2026-07-29 11:05
10 Next.js Performance Mistakes That Slow Down Production Apps
A Next.js application can feel fast during development and still become painfully slow after deployment.
Local development usually runs with a small database, almost no network latency, limited traffic, and cached browser resources. Production introduces larger datasets, real users, third-party scripts, slower devices, remote services, and more complex rendering paths.
The framework already prov...