JavaScript growth and third parties

Re:JavaScript growth and third parties by SignsOfABeast on Friday December 14, 2018 @06:30AM (#18680100)

> Also, JS is cached. First time will be slow, others, not so much

This is a very weak argument.

  * many 3rd party resources are not cacheable or may have bad policies
  * caches may be more often cold then you expect. most apps still cache large combined blobs, which will invalidate with each release.
  * pure JS size has still it's impact on performance
  * caching won't magically cut all network roundtrips which you need due to architectural reasons

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Re:JavaScript growth and third parties by raverbashing on Friday December 14, 2018 @07:26AM (#18680315)

Yes, but you can optimize your website for caching. Your points are valid but they mostly boil down to "people don't know/don't care what they're doing", which won't help even if you don't have JS in your site.

And it is: "still its impact"

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