Main page is very large (~17MB)

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Here is a snip from the chrome web tools, sorted by size:

mbauman · Answer

This looks promising to shave off ~1.5MB: <a href="https://www.labnol.org/internet/lig

ViralBShah · Answer

Or pick a different thing to show there. I just picked what I found on the Plots.jl pa

KristofferC · Answer

Emulating a slow 3g connection the website takes over 1 minute to load.

jebej · Answer

For reference, the home pages of other languages are generally below 1MB.

jebej · Answer

Maybe some of these plots could be re-rendered with Plotly or similar.

ViralBShah · Answer

Maybe we should just use static images at least on mobiles?

ViralBShah · Answer

I also don't know how this affects our bandwidth bill with the CDN. I assume much of t

mbauman · Answer

What if we deferred loading the gifs until the tab is clicked? We could even start wi

mbauman · Answer

Well after <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title"

ranjanan · Answer

Has <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id

KristofferC · Answer

It is dominated by waves.gif but <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="

mbauman · Answer

Here's after <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title

KristofferC · Answer

17MB -> 5MB in 9 hours is good progress :)

mbauman · Answer

Ah, the triplets are coming from the three embedded YouTube videos.

ranjanan · Answer

Nice. ~~Will make a PR and test it~~ whoops the internet at the airport has tur

essenciary · Answer

I haven't tested it, but in theory, we could convert waves.gif to a video using someth

ViralBShah · Answer

I think we are now at 5MB. So probably ok to close this.

ViralBShah · Answer

BTW, we can have any other plot. I think we should remove all the animated GIFs.

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