I wasn't trying to suggest all web pages should be svelte. I was suggesting that a page complaining about bloat should probably be optimized. Especially when we're talking about web fonts that are typically 50 to 150KB.
I'd also call out a blog post that, for example, called out jQuery as being unneeded bloat, if the blog post itself used jQuery. Assuming the blog was itself run/configured, etc, by the poster.
Also, the post isn't about bloat anyway; it's about FOIC vs FOUC and lazily loading fonts. Complaining that the page is "bloated" at 500kb (Edit: Fine, 1.2MB, whatever) is a shitty nitpick.
It's 500KB now. It was 1.2MB. Perhaps complaining about that is a nitpick. If so, is it more of a nitpick than "It’s also your responsibility to make your site load super fast, and if you don’t, it’s totes fair game for people (me) to whine about it on Twitter"?
Edit: The post itself has some pretty snarky language targeted at "flash" caused by waiting for a 50KB to 150KB download of a web font over a 2G connection. I think it's fair game to call out 600KB+ of animated GIFS that are heavier, and certainly "flash" more than just once in the blog post complaining about "flash" and download wait times. Call me nitpicky. The author of the post fixed these things sometime after it was posted here, so...hmm.
I wasn't trying to suggest all web pages should be svelte. I was suggesting that a page complaining about bloat should probably be optimized. Especially when we're talking about web fonts that are typically 50 to 150KB.
I'd also call out a blog post that, for example, called out jQuery as being unneeded bloat, if the blog post itself used jQuery. Assuming the blog was itself run/configured, etc, by the poster.