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by stonegray 1514 days ago
Thanks, a lot of readers might not be able to load this, especially over a cellular connection.

The site itself weighs 375MB, ~150MB after compression, and pins my CPU for about 3 seconds on load, using 1.70GB of real memory.

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Oh dear. I had to visit it just to see my self and it looks like it preloads the whole site? Alot of pictures even though the article shows none. 356MB in total for just some text.
When you move around the site it has a lot of very nice, stylized 3d and cool transition effects. It's weird that it preloads nearly everything on first visit.
Wow. It's quite amazing that it loaded in 3 seconds on my phone over wireless connection.

... and then looked and worked like 50kB static website from 10 years ago.