I agree with most of this except the part about sessions. I'll assume OP does not want session ID/token garbage in the URI, to which I answer with a resounding "Amen!"<p>It's super annoying how a once-simple Blogger blog now takes at least 3-4 seconds to load some Ajax garbage which is not needed. At all. It's just engineers putting it in the because they can, and because they think its cool, but ultimately it detracts from the overall usability of the site.