[dest]

Including a stellar 378kB PNG image of 2776*1381 pixels, while it's only a small illustration in the article.

https://css-tricks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cloud.png

[Lukas_Skywalker]

Wow. A quick and dirty vectorization yields an SVG of 9kB. The PNG even looks like it was originally an SVG with some linear gradients.

[garblegarble]

Even just running it through optipng results in a 58% reduction to 158KB!