I know if you’ve all probably already seen this, but it is good to get out there every few moments: https://www.wired.com/2016/04/average-webpage-now-size-original-doom/
A friend of mine shared this article and reacted with surprise that a site could be so big, then I looked at the size of his site:
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It’s so easy these days where frameworks and libraries take dependencies on other frameworks and libraries. Before you know it, you are pulling down down a lot of content that you had no direct hand in creating or calling
(The KIRUPA site has some of that going for it as well, and it is on my list to reduce that!)
You’ll need to do a tutorial on tree shaking 
I wonder what consideration in taken a web design 101 course these days.
I was never good at web design but took a few basic courses when i was younger (im 34 now :()
At that time so much emphasis was put on size, crunching your images etc. Importance of performance was what i mostly took away from it actually.
Yes, that is a sad face inside parentheses
Edit: the xkcd embed could use some work.
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