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@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ If performance is of a paramount importance for you (especially if you send **la
 that have been designed to be performant or you could file a PR against `tungstenite` to improve the performance!
 
 We are aware of changes that both `tungstenite` and `async-tungstenite` need in order to fill the gap of ~30% performance difference between `tungstenite`
-and more performant libraries like `fastbwebsockets`, but we have not worked on that yet as it was not required for the use case that original authors designed
+and more performant libraries like `fastwebsockets`, but we have not worked on that yet as it was not required for the use case that original authors designed
 the library for. In the course of past years we have merged several performance improvements submitted by the awesome community of Rust users who helped to improve
 the library! For a quick summary of the pending performance problems/improvements, see [the comment](https://github.com/snapview/tungstenite-rs/issues/352#issuecomment-1537488614).