The page has extremely poor performance. Simply scrolling or moving the mouse cursor around loads Ryzen 7900 to 30% (it's a 12-core CPU!) Everything stutters.
Hi Orphea! Guilty as charged we kinda rushed this landing page for our TechCrunch announcement and haven't been able to come back to optimize it. I haven't heard of stuttering before now, but maybe something quirky is happening with your combination of browser/OS/CPU. If you could let us know which browser and OS you're on, we'd be very grateful! Thanks in advance!
Mac mini M2 user with safari here: The website causes 10-20% CPU load doing absolutely nothing. The spotlight effect also doesn't seem to work as intended. As long as the mouse is moving, the spotlight just barely moves in its direction. Then, when the mouse stays still, it suddenly jumps towards it. It makes the website seem a lot more laggy than it probably would be.
On chrome, the spotlight effect looks better, but we are up to 50% CPU usage.
Hi Orphea! Finally had the time to debug this and turns out it was trivial! We were missing a requestAnimationFrame, d'oh! Thanks for pointing it out, solved here: https://github.com/deco-sites/starting/pull/307