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Re:A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page by rustybolt on Thursday August 25, 2022 @03:12AM (#32590571)
Even for text-centric sites fitting everything in 14kB is not always feasible if you use custom fonts. My site is text- and math-centric, but it uses some fonts (Crimson + bold and italic variants, plus the KaTeX fonts used for math). Each font is about 30kB big for a total of 180kB.

I would like to improve, but I feel like the fonts are essential for the look and feel, so I'm not willing to give up the fonts, so I guess the ~200kB is the lower limit for me.

(Of course, the fonts are cached on the next page load, so my site does load very fast after opening the first article. Only thing that bothers me is the layout jump-around due to font

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Re:A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page by aaaaaaaaaaab on Thursday August 25, 2022 @07:43AM (#32592374)
>so I'm not willing to give up the fonts

Visitors will simply block them :)

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