Solid or Preact are less than 10kb, and captcha is pretty much useless at this point in my experience. There's no reason for this site to have over 70kb of JS.

Solid or Preact are less than 10kb, and captcha is pretty much useless at this point in my experience. There's no reason for this site to have over 70kb of JS. My blog has a similar comment section with less 15kb of JS. The funny thing is that almost half of the 70kb is jQuery which is basically baked into the browser at this point. However, I think that it's important to keep in mind that a "Hello World" app in NextJS is around 70kb as well, so I think that anything less than 100kb is pretty forgivable on the modern web. That's a rarer achievement than one would like to believe. To fully clarify my belief, I use a ~$50 budget phone, and it's rarely the JS that makes the web unusable. It's usually when a website loads multiple advertisements that each contain video tags that I actually notice a degradation in experience.