Slimming Down

This morning I got nerd-sniped by Why your website should be under 14kB in size . I had already optimized my blog several times previously, most recently writing my own static site generator in Rust , but according to the Cloudflare URL Scanner my front page was still a shocking 242 kB ! How could this be? Turns out 124 kB were consumed just by highlight.js , and a further 75 kB by a single…