Thanks for the reply. I agree that 1.66mb is insane for what my site does, and I'm working on minifying it as much as possible. I got it down to ~90kb, which is still not amazing, but is significantly better than 1.6mb. Fonts were taking up more than 90% of that, which I just stripped.
I do disagree with the idea of including code from others being a bad practice/smell. The detriment and added load time of using a library like jQuery is well worth the functionality it provides, IMO.
Thanks for the comment and for pointing out a problem with the article, though - I've revised it!
I do disagree with the idea of including code from others being a bad practice/smell. The detriment and added load time of using a library like jQuery is well worth the functionality it provides, IMO.
Thanks for the comment and for pointing out a problem with the article, though - I've revised it!