Do you happen to know what the performance impact of parsing and executing ~82KB of JavaScript is? Genuinely curious to know the numbers.

I get about ~7ms in chrome on a mbp and ~200ms on my shitty nexus s. http://danheberden.com/tools/howlongtoloadjquery.htm

Cool. A few comments:

* You're loading the unminified version.

* You're factoring the network request time into the benchmark. I was interested in pure parse time. Which was 27ms according to Chrome Developer Tools: http://i.imgur.com/hgFiGTu.png (the score on the page was 110ms).

I'm curious what people who complain about "parse time" consider to be an acceptable score.

Edit: Ah, I didn't realize you were discarding the network time. I was fixated on the number spat out by the page.

74ms for initial load and averaging about 20ms subsequent loads on a MBP with Chrome. Ubuntu Chrome is similar. 837ms initial load, average about 140 ms subsequent loads on a Moto X on T-Mobile.

I thought we were taking download time out of this

The "subsequent load" time should be pretty close to this. I'm getting about 20-30ms of "Evaluate script" time when I run a profile in Chrome's Timeline tool.