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The main focus was the Table of contents rendering, which had a lot of redundant stuff. Headers were the next largest gain.
The main techniques used to reduce size were:
- auto-generate a few elements on-the-fly with JavaScript for on-hover effects, but only if it doesn't affect SEO and readability when JS is turned off
- use a lot more CSS
::afterand::beforeto avoid embedding repetitive icons multiple times on the HTML
After this changes, the rendered size of cirosantilli.com fell from 216 MiB to 156.5 MiB, which is kind of cool!