Unused JavaScript Is Down 1% From Last Year

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The 50th percentile of people are loading on desktop 509k worth of the JavaScript. That is a much bigger number than I was expecting. 35% of all JavaScript is unused, meaning that a lot of people are still just shipping all of the JavaScript for all of the website in on one page. Hopefully it will go down quite a bit more as we move to a lot of these tools that allow you as to use dynamic import would just import the scripts as we need them.

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott look at the the Web Almanac’s report on the role of JavaScript on the web in 2022.

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