It seems like their answer to this question is "no", but that's hard to understand when I see this quote from the same article: > But let’s get back to the num

It seems like their answer to this question is "no", but that's hard to understand when I see this quote from the same article: > But let’s get back to the numbers. Per the data above, a typical user on an average device and network will take ~50ms to download jQuery and another ~250ms to parse it. An average delay of 300ms is simply unacceptable. I have a hard time believing that 50ms to download jQuery is average, so I assume that the author isn't including round-trip time. To be fair, this is also from the article: > And in my opinion, the painfully slow parsing and interpretation of scripts on mobile browsers – particularly older Android ones – is the only compelling reason to prefer tiny JavaScript libraries. It's the author's opinion that this is the only compelling reason, but it is a VERY compelling reason.