My take: Bootstrap is made of several components, which make it trivial to recompile it without the not-needed parts. You can even do it online (as well as sav

My take: Bootstrap is made of several components, which make it trivial to recompile it without the not-needed parts. You can even do it online (as well as save/reuse configuration files): http://getbootstrap.com/customize/ http://getbootstrap.com/customize/ The full bootstrap css weights 23.5kb gzipped. If you're not using gzip on your servers then that's the problem you should solve. What makes bootstrap good is not the features per-se. It's the huge amount of cross-compatibility knowledge in it. There are many cool frameworks around, but it's hard to find something so solid and battle-proven as bootstrap. That's the real point of using bootstrap.