We should award sites like this with a "So shonky, @dracos had to fix it" sticker.https://twitter.com/dracos/status/1251836594509791232 …
The thing about this specific http://gov.uk subsite that makes it such a sore thumb is that the *rest* of the sprawling enterprise has avoided exactly this sort of pratfall.
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Here, for example, is the UK gov's primary COVID page: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus And traces: https://www.webpagetest.org/result/200417_MQ_0ad46129a386d547f296065a9dadcc24/ … It's *really bloody fast*, just like nearly all the rest of http://gov.uk because (until, it seems, very recently) this sort of JS bloat was verboten.
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If there's a lesson here, it's "'modern' frontend: not even once"
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