[kup0]

What this tells me is that the only important part of the site (the content) is 20KB in size, and that the other 498KB is mostly for developer convenience?

How is this a good tradeoff? A 25x increase in page size justifies what kind of benefit?

For efficiency's sake in general, not to mention for a drastic reduction in data usage for mobile users or users with slow connections, I don't see why so much extra cruft is necessary.

[dimal]

When I click around the site, page loads are instantaneous. Very nice user experience.

[MoOx_]

You can provide the same user experience without adding all the site content in a unique bundle. Take a look to http://phenomic.io/

[savolai]

The value added as I perceive it by gatsby is instant page changes on link click. Is it possible to make phenomic preload at least some of the pages, as I really don't see what benefit it can provide otherwise?