You're missing the point. You're too focused on the code writing part. It's the extra unnecessary resources loaded from jQuery.
The difference in size is 85.1 KB (according to an above post). 85.1 KB * 100,000,000 (Just an example of the number of times it is loaded) = 7.92555511 terabytes of wastes resources.
a 1 page script written for comcast does not demand jQuery.
That's not to say it would have improved it.