# The importance of benchmarks

DevFeed: [The importance of benchmarks](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-importance-of-benchmarks-33535.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.aha.io/engineering/articles/the-importance-of-benchmarks>)

Published: 2026-04-13T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Aha! Engineering Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/aha-engineering-blog.md>)

Topics: [Algorithm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/algorithm.md>), [Data structures](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-structures.md>), [Parsing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/parsing.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [algorithm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/algorithm.md>), [benchmarks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmarks.md>), [data-structure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-structure.md>), [parsing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/parsing.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [structure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/structure.md>)

## AI overview

The Aha! Develop team investigated a sprint report that took 15 minutes to load and nearly froze the browser. The investigation traced the problem to inefficient progress parsing and data structures that duplicated days without events, producing a more than 100-fold performance increase after changes.

## Source excerpt

Late last year, the Aha! Develop team added support for team line-level reporting. During a team demo in the run-up to the release, we discovered one of our internal sprint reports was taking 15 minutes to load, almost freezing the browser in the p