Comment by em-bee

the whole django site is more than 500KB, the other one more than 300KB.

how is that to small? just because not enough is included in the first http response?

any SPA that doesn't include server side rendering couldn't possibly be any larger as all it does is link to a script that builds the page. and SPA is the modern way to build sites, isn't it? or are you disqualified if your site doesn't support SSR, and the main content is images?

here is an idea for the above two sites: inline all the images and SVGs that will reduce the number of hits and make the page load faster. django should be able to do that. (the encoding of the images will make them a bit larger, but i hope compression can recover most of that).