Images & the Front Page Loading Speed

[dulldesk]

The front page takes a while to load, which I'd think is in part because of the large number of non-small images having to load.

Some solutions:

• Compress the images
• Load the images lazily

[6167656e74323431]

Alternate idea: only show the most recent x articles and most recent y issues, and have a separate page that has all of them

[dulldesk]

Another solution: convert all images (except vectors) to webp (credit to @6167656e74323431).

[ApocalypseCalculator]

e2e92f1 reduces initial page load size from the original 70mb to 30mb (a good reduction, but far from enough). Ideally we should target < 5mb which should be simple using the image compression/webp as mentioned above