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Well, I guess I asked a tough question or something. Fortunately, I have the tools to answer it for myself, and the results are quite favorable.

It looks to me, based on an inspection of haveamint.com, that Mint uses two Javascript includes: one with some bookkeeping code, and another that is basically just a get-style query to the Mint server-side script. The first weighs 4.1 K, and the second a whopping 0.01 K.

So there you have it; the performance hit due to downloading the Javascript includes is pretty much negligible. Turns out the server-side hit is probably more important, as I bet that second query script will block page loading until the server-side script returns. This seems to be supported by the reported response time of ~400ms for that 0.01k file.

But, all in all, I think Mint has a very minimal impact on the pages it tracks. I will probably purchase a license when I get closer to launching my site, since it looks like a fantastic product.

I just have to ask, though, can anyone confirm or deny my conclusions?

In addtion to what Shaun has said, I can confirm that we use it on our e-commerce site and have had no issues with page load times, Mint works impeccably. Just make sure you use it for what it’s designed for i.e a fresh view, don’t store too much data and it should be fine.