moment.js loaded globally but only used in search #785
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What is wrong?
moment.js (~17KB) is loaded unconditionally on every page of the website via _includes/head.html (line 101), but it is only ever used in one place: _includes/algolia.html (line 20), to format a date string in search results.
Current behaviour: Every visitor downloads moment.js regardless of whether they interact with the search widget at all.
Expected behaviour: moment.js should only be loaded as a dependency of the search widget (algolia.html), not as a global resource in <head>.
Proposed fix:
- Remove the
<script src="...moment.min.js">tag from _includes/head.html - Add it at the top of _includes/algolia.html, directly before the inline script that consumes it
This is a one-file-change with zero risk of breakage since moment has exactly one call site.