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Not the main topic, but as I was in the network tab, I noticed that the page is ~3.3MB compressed, 2.4MB of which is the "Alaska Hawaiian" svg logo here: https

• indrora 1y ago
  I was curious why and the answer is stupider than you'd think: The circle in the image is an embedded PNG which has not been pngcrushed at all. Instead of building a few gradients out, it looks like whoever did the export to svg out of Illustrator or whatever let it export this horrendously large circle. With a gradient. That costs 2.5MB.
  • djoldman 1y ago
    Looks like that's accurate. Deleting the png from the defs makes the svg 11kb.
  • tencentshill 1y ago
    Maybe it's an easy way to speed up the page load if the boss ever asks them to. You have to carve out a few CYA options when working for a hostile manager.
    • alaskalol 1y ago
      E-comm team has the highest turn over, maybe it is an easy CYA fix, maybe they just followed whatever design said the logo should be. Great catch though.
• x0x0 1y ago
  For your convenience, some moron used the entire above-the-fold on a 16-in mbp to tell you what site you're on with a png.