"Improving performance doesn’t mean we should remove all fonts and images. It just means we should be more aware of how the design decisions we make impact user experience. Performance is a balance between content and design."

We have recently completed a milestone where we were able to drop jQuery as a dependency of the frontend code for GitHub.com. This marks the end of a gradual, years-long transition of increasingly decoupling from jQuery until we were able to completely remove the library.