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It's the somewhat extremist techno boffins who turn off JavaScript - there are so few of them relative to the general Internet audience that IMO the "works with

• mixmastamyk 10y ago
  There are few that turn it off, but many enthusiasts who use ad blockers and ghostery/noscript for security and performance reasons. If your site needs a half megabyte of JS from six domains to show an article, they've already moved on, boffins or not.
• walshemj 10y ago
  Depends if you want to work as well as you can in google or not - yes they can read some JS but its not perfect - infinite scroll for example
• gpderetta 10y ago
  Are those the same guys that do tech support to family/frends/colleagues and install them the latest batch of add/js blockers?
• detaro 10y ago
  "Works without javascript" also normally means that it works under partial failures, which are a lot more common: an adblocker doesn't like the look of your JS (some people have them configured rather strictly, and false positives happen), a CDN is down, JS doesn't load because the user is on a bad connection... many sites stay sort-of readable even when CSS doesn't make it through, which I really appreciate while travelling. The more application-like your site is the more leeway it gets in my view. I don't expect Slack or Google Maps to work, but blogs that stay white because jQuery failed to load are really not necessary.