bvoran

Hi There, we have considered a decoupled Drupal architecture but being that we are primarily a publishing site, we didn't feel it was a top priority. Things like SEO are more important... However we are reevaluating this soon and are considering tools like Nuxt.js and Gatsby.js

Which one of the 4 reasons were "made up"? The last reason may not be technical but it's a reason we wanted to exploit. Looks like it worked ;)

Never said they were all "technical" reasons :)

The goal isn't to remove one thing or the other. The goal is to improving page load time and speeding up JS rendering time. We just got to a point where jQuery was something we could do without.

Hi there. The bandwidth measurement is purley from our JS bundle. We are saving roughly 32kb (47kb - 15kb) from our previous article bundle with jquery... so 32kb x 5 million (unique pageviews) = ~160gb so actually more than I stated in the article. Now we do use a CDN but the idea is that we would have the lowest js footprint possible especially b/c of things like 3rd party ads which we unfortunately can't control.