A 2024 bundle size audit of 1,200 production web apps found that framework overhead accounts for 62% of initial load bloat for apps under 50k monthly active users. For teams choosing between Svelte 5’s fine-grained reactivity and Angular 18’s full-featured platform, the difference in baseline bundle size can make or break Core Web Vitals for low-bandwidth users. 🔴 Live Ecosystem Stats ⭐ sveltejs/svelte — 86,445 stars, 4,901 forks 📦 svelte — 18,056,918 downloads last month ⭐ angular/angular — 95,732 stars, 26,189 forks 📦 @angular/core — 12,341,209 downloads last month Data pulled live from GitHub and npm as of October 2024.…