The largest thing it downloads with a XHR is names.txt, a 641 kB (265 kB gzipped) list.. of names. 36852 names to be precise. Baffling.

Apparently it's to make links clientside in the text. https://github.com/WardCunningham/remodeling/blob/master/sta...

Yes, it oddly took around 20 seconds to show what to all appearances is just text. Sort of hilarious after the yesterdays danluu web bloat article.