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Slow loading speed on the top page

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
html

Research direction

The issue does not name files, tests, or a specific entry point beyond the site's top page. Begin by measuring the top page's loading time and identifying the SVG illustrations contributing to it. Done would require an agreed optimization scope and evidence that the page loads faster.

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Description

I think we could improve the loading time on the top page to make it faster.
As the designer, I have several ideas.

Improvement measures under consideration

I'm thinking it would be good to try these out in order from top to bottom in the future:

  1. I think we can make the SVG illustrations much lighter, so I'd like to try that
  2. In some areas, converting from SVG to PNG or similar formats might result in lighter file sizes
  3. In the future, making the illustrations a bit smaller and creating a cleaner layout could give a more elegant atmosphere, and it might also create a layout that matches better when the Code Example supports WASM (#3719)
Dominant language
HTML
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Forks
673
Avg merge
2d 6h
Merged PRs (30d)
9

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