That's a heck of a thing for a largely static site: https://www.webpagetest.org/result/180912_6Q_5fd08e0ef64071de6f3cd266c36a3cac/ …
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400K of JS on the wire? For a largely-static `.gov` site? I smell a framework! https://www.webpagetest.org/result/180912_6Q_5fd08e0ef64071de6f3cd266c36a3cac/1/breakdown/ …
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US Veterans, as a whole, are not a wealthy group. They are as likely to be at risk for homelessness as to be able to afford the best hardware: http://nchv.org/index.php/news/media/background_and_statistics/ …
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There's a little good news on this front, but it doesn't change the overall picture about technology access:https://endhomelessness.org/resource/veteran-homelessness/ …
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What are those 400K providing our veterans and their loved ones? Drop-down menus, AFAICT. And a type-ahead search. Also React, React DOM, Promise and Object.assign polyfills (in browsers that have both natively), Modernizr, a copy of `core-js`, etc. etc. etc.
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And that's just the vendor file!: https://www.vets.gov/generated/vendor.entry.574d7c1b8a175484ffb9-1536687772278.js …
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Because this is in the now-traditional style of cultural-React-inspired DIY-bloat (everything's pluggable, which means an exercise to the reader), the app bundle includes Proptypes, what *looks* like a full copy of Lodash, and oh so very much more.
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The net result is to push TTI in this trace back nearly 4 full seconds: https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=180912_6Q_5fd08e0ef64071de6f3cd266c36a3cac-r:1-c:0 …
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There's a lot going on deeper in this app, it seems: https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/vets-website/tree/master/content/pages … But why is the front-page paying for that? Why are our vets and their loved ones being slowed down in accessing essential services this way?
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If there's something that *doesn't* need React, it's a drop-down menu. The sport of pure-CSS drop-downs was won more than a decade ago. There's no excuse.
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