Website JS Bloat
Comments criticize the excessive size of JavaScript bundles on websites, often 1MB+ for simple pages, and debate acceptable limits compared to minimal alternatives.
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I expect its not significantly larger than loading your average 2023 webpage with 15MB of js
30kb is too much for js. A modern website should run fine on half of that.
1MB+ gzipped JS? That's a lot
I think you need to decrease the size of the JS file, it's 41KB for essentially displaying a few numbers.
indeed! what a nice, minimal page... that comes with ~1.6mb of javascript.
"Just download 8 megabytes of javascript and wait 10 seconds for a page that's mainly made up of static content and should be under ~1mb and load instantly"
Oh, my bad! It's a "landing page"! Totally normal that it needs to 200 Kb of JS to display 1 Kb of text!
It's really only about 43k and it loads instantaneously for me. The rest is scripts and other stuff that's cached. I think this is the right tradeoff for an ultra-popular site.
With under 4kb js and 2kb css I guess it is pretty far from being a bloat.
You are being generous, most sites ships at least few MB of JS garbage.