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by leedo__ 4307 days ago
That is because we embed fonts in the CSS file to cut down on HTTP requests. It's about 100k without the fonts. Sure it's still much larger than existed 10 years ago, but it's pretty standard these days.

Also note that we're gzipping, so the transmitted size is much smaller. And we also correctly return 304 responses after the first request.