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by tazu 700 days ago
Slightly off-topic, but I dislike this trend of "designers over-designing everything". This website is aesthetically pleasing, and has it's own unique style, but scrolling the home-page is laggy on my $4,000 Macbook (Chrome). I guess it's because it downloads 14MB of resources and tries to download more based on scroll position?
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The website is made in framer (https://www.framer.com/) no code tool. If you look at Framer homepage it's also laggy to me on my macbook. It's worst on FF. I don't think its the scroll effects but many blurs/shadows - they seem to be less performant in FF than in Blink and since everybody test these in chrome... you got this outcome.
Same for me on FF Android. Unbeliveable sluggish scrolling. Couldn't read the article.
Strange… my iPhone renders it instantly with 0 issues.
When is the last time you restarted your mac? I had this guy complain to me, everything is laggy and chrome is slow (memory leaks?). A simple restart fixed everything. Clear your chrome cache/etc. Disable all extensions you dont use and try again.

If it does not, try another browser.

Not using the website also helps
Was just trying to troubleshoot for the sake of curiosity. But yeah, your method works.

:D