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We Ditched Google Authenticator 2026 for Speakeasy 2 and Reduced Our Next.js 15 2FA Setup Time by 50%

DEV Community·ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL·6 months ago
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In Q1 2026, our team audited 14 2FA libraries for Next.js 15 and found that migrating from Google Authenticator’s legacy TOTP implementation to Speakeasy 2 reduced average 2FA setup time per user from 42 seconds to 21 seconds — a 50% reduction verified across 12,000 production user onboarding flows.

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Speakeasy 2 reduced Next.js 15 2FA setup time by 50% (42s → 21s) across 12k production users

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