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by Warputin 1410 days ago
32kb is nothing these days! Hopefully they have sane caching of their assets, which means it would rarely need to reload the asset.
2 comments

Feels like you:

1. Didn't read the article (they dropped 13% of the entire page weight). The websites are already well below of "today’s average"

2. Don't understand the impact of having a page that loads instantly at the government level. These websites are not for fun, they must work well for everyone.

> the change for users on a low bandwidth connection or lower specification device will be much more noticeable, resulting in significantly improved page download speed and performance.

That said, there are plenty of good reasons to migrate away from jQuery, but the 32kb just isn’t one of the good ones.