The text is beautifully condensed. And the handwritten style does help it look casual/inviting.
But the whole thing loaded significantly slower than I read. How many megabytes is this post? I haven’t waited this long for a website to load for years.
Good, point. We just uploaded the images that Abram gave us, but I just realized that they are quite large and have minimal compression applied to them.
I just experimented with some compression and it looks like we can get a 5x size reduction without any significant loss in quality, so we will go and replace all the images with the compressed ones. Thanks for pointing that out!
Ah, yep. Sorry, that was the size after I experimented with cropping them some (until I realized that pixels don’t mean pixels anymore, and we need to serve higher resolution images to retina screens).
Yeah, we could try changing the image format as well. Though I think it’s mostly fine now.
The text is beautifully condensed. And the handwritten style does help it look casual/inviting.
But the whole thing loaded significantly slower than I read. How many megabytes is this post? I haven’t waited this long for a website to load for years.
Good, point. We just uploaded the images that Abram gave us, but I just realized that they are quite large and have minimal compression applied to them.
I just experimented with some compression and it looks like we can get a 5x size reduction without any significant loss in quality, so we will go and replace all the images with the compressed ones. Thanks for pointing that out!
This should now be fixed! We added compression to all the images, and things should now pretty fast (total size of the images is <1 MB)
It’s actually 3.4 MB total.
Edit: You can get some further savings by saving as GIF instead of JPEG. For example, this image goes from ~360 KB to ~250 KB that way.
Ah, yep. Sorry, that was the size after I experimented with cropping them some (until I realized that pixels don’t mean pixels anymore, and we need to serve higher resolution images to retina screens).
Yeah, we could try changing the image format as well. Though I think it’s mostly fine now.
These kinds of images should be saved as PNG. Use a version from before any JPEG compression, if you can.