> flags are placed on top of the background and need an alpha channel Ok, that explains the huge PNGs; can't they be rendered as-is (i.e. include part of the b

> flags are placed on top of the background and need an alpha channel Ok, that explains the huge PNGs; can't they be rendered as-is (i.e. include part of the background in the foreground picture? > first paint is still under 3s That's really slow. The jankey animation (yay Apple) and rasterized image rendering is horrible; it's a throwback to the late-90s internet. > the audience for this page is 90% software developers, > with powerful machines and high bandwidth. I.e. me, and I find it horribly slow. I'm using a year old rMBP and I have a pretty good internet connection (20MB/s, 10x what I could get in the UK and I actually get pretty close to the max all the time; for a comparison: http://www.webanalyticsworld.net/2014/08/internet-speed-gap-widens.html http://www.webanalyticsworld.net/2014/08/internet-speed-gap-...). Sure, I'd love fiber, but that's not exactly broadly available (though if I could move my house 1km to the east I'd have it).