The homepage is 12.8MB in size

[anthonydillon]

Summary

When loading the website's homepage, the page size is 12.8MB, which seems far too large for a mostly static page.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Create a new profile in your browser so there are no browser plugins.
2. Open the inspector, select Network tab and ensure all formats are shown
3. Hard load/refresh the homepage
4. See the resources load totals to 12.8MB

Expected behavior

I would imagine the page could be less than 2-3MB. I would like to see pages <1MB.

Browser/device details

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[anthonydillon]

I appreciated the lazy loading of the images, which speeds up the initial load, but we should also reduce the page's weight with image optimisation.

[petesfrench]

This issue was unintentionally closed when I closed the submitted PR.

We can also look into our build pipeline, as many things appear there that aren't needed globally.