"Saying JS broke the web when your website loads 754kB of JS across 13 separate requests makes me wonder if you're very serious about the problem." Truthfully,

"Saying JS broke the web when your website loads 754kB of JS across 13 separate requests makes me wonder if you're very serious about the problem." Truthfully, _the website_ does not load anything. The so-called "modern" web browser used by many but not all HN commenters auto-loads resources, e.g., processing <script ... src=... > tags, and runs Javascript, e.g., XHR or fetch requests. As such, by using a different client, not the one used by these HN commenters, this web page can be retrieved with only one HTTP request (initiated by the user) and and read, text-only, with zero Javascript files sourced. There are of course other strategies to avoid auto-loading resources and running Javascript. IMO, anyone who is "very serious about the problem" would surely be using one of them, and probably unperturbed by yet another blog page that tries to source some standard WorddPress Javascripts. Nor did Javascript "break the web". Web developers and web marketers did, using Javascript and browsers distributed by advertising companies, and organisations paid by advertising companies to send them data about browser users.