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Matt Hobbs, Head of Frontend Development at the Government Digital Service (GDS)

The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance

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In this blog post, we explain the technical details of removing the jQuery library from GOV.UK’s public facing applications and the performance impact it had for our users.

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