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Re:A love letter to jQuery by ForHackernews on Saturday February 27, 2016 @04:26PM (#11188593)
> it's a bloat, actually.

I mean, it's like less than 30kB minified+gzipped, and if you load it from a CDN, then there's a 95% your users already have it cached.

I guess it's technically a "bloat" but unless all your images are gzipped SVGs, it's almost certainly one of the smaller elements in your page.

Re:A love letter to jQuery by jnbiche on Saturday February 27, 2016 @06:56PM (#11189066)
Unless you're using the unversioned ("latest") jQuery version on your CDN, the browser cache hit rate will be way less than 95%. I've seen some estimates at less than 20% (can't find the link at the moment).

And for various reasons, it's not a terribly good reason to use the "latest" jQuery version with no version, unless you're prepared to deal with sudden code breakage.

Re:A love letter to jQuery by Can_Not on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @07:57PM (#11214322)
> then there's a 95% your users already have it cached.

In reality, there's a less than 5% chance that your users will have the right version cached, but a 95% chance that your users will notice when the public CDN is over capacity.