I usually am skeptical of redesigns that look like this because it typically signals that literally hundreds of 1MB JS dependencies are to be downloaded to disp

I usually am skeptical of redesigns that look like this because it typically signals that literally hundreds of 1MB JS dependencies are to be downloaded to display simple text. The new pubmed, much like the old pubmed, is speedy! Pages are ~800kb on first visit, subsequent pages visits avg 30kb transferred data in my very unscientific tests. Congratulations on making a great resource greater :)