[dmortin]

People like interactive sites which give immediate visual feedback for actions.

Aside from the tracking stuff it's a better user experience, so it's unlikely to go away, especially if the demand for no-js is tiny.

[enriquto]

> People like interactive sites which give immediate visual feedback for actions.

Precisely. That's exactly what you get by disabling javascript on most sites.

Two of the fastest sites that I know are sourcehut and the D-language forums. They are much snappier than any javascript-infested site.

[josephcsible]

You can have your cake and eat it too. Use progressive enhancement/graceful degradation so that users with JS get immediate visual feedback, and just fall back to reloads without JS.

[ithrow]

That's more work and more messy than just writing the whole thing as a SPA from the beginning IME. I'm talking about real interactive applications, not simple blogs.