26/10/2026
Our news app reached the splash screen in 2.4 seconds. The publisher’s other app took 3.3. Ours still felt slower on most screens after that.
Julieta Fernández Ovejero, QA Engineer at N5, measured the gap between how long a wait takes and how it feels. Then we changed what people see while they wait: cached headlines, prefetching, and skeletons in place of spinners.
The API wait stayed the same. People read the headline in the meantime.
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