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> 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.




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.


> 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.




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