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> Your score shot back down to 72, you know have new areas to investigate, super cool ! I generally do not find it "super cool" when I suddenly/unexpectedly have new areas to investigate. In most cases, the developer dealing with lighthouse scores is someone who just built a website to a client's spec, only to find out that there are things that it flags which are very time consuming to deal with. Set expectations al…
Be proactive and inform your clients of the change. You get to do performance work, they feel taken care of by an expert, their visitors have a better experience, everyone wins!
Really though? It usually means:
* The fixes can require non-trivial changes that take an unknown amount of time to fix
* The client has to pay you for something that probably wasn't budgeted
* You have to fit in more work. If you're good at getting clients and you have a full schedule, it can throw a wrench in.
I'm not sure most freelance devs delight in doing suddenly imposed "performance work." Maybe the first time or two it's interesting, after that it's just annoying.