The Website Obesity Crisis is a wonderful talk about the sheer size that even simple websites have. Thanks to @stilkov for the pointer:
2025-01-06: There used to be a link to twitter here, but somewhere in the last few years since I deployed my blog the twitter API changed/broke/whatever. I have therfore removed the content.
That led me to look at the size of this blog and it was scary:
The weight of the front page of this humble blog is a whopping 5 MB. When looking for the culprits, I came across two problematic areas:
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