Nicolas Goutay

During the last two years, the median webpage size across the web increased by over 30%, from 1.5Mb to 2Mb—resulting in worse performance for end-users.

While the Jamstack philosophy is rooted in frugality, many recent Jamstack approaches rely on heavy JavaScript frameworks that give us top-notch Developer Experience at the expense of heavier web pages. What is the true cost of those frameworks? And how can we alleviate it?

In this talk, I will first describe the end-user impact of using JavaScript frameworks, then discuss options to reduce that impact for existing Jamstack websites, to finally present and review the “lightweight Jamstack” we used to redesign https://orbit.love: Eleventy, Alpine and Tailwind.