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Comment by butz | Hacker News Reader

Great initiative. Site loads fast, text is readable, adblocker has nothing to block - what more could you want from website? You might want to look into optimizing SVG files, as Inkscape by default leaves a lot of unnecessary metadata.

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I came here to write the same. svgcleaner[1] will reduce it from 8.4KiB to 1.3KiB (compressed with zopfli). Which is 85% smaller.

And a manually crafted one is just 477B. And 261B compressed. Which is just 3% of the original.

Now we can talk about bloatedness.

  <svg width="601" height="751" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
    <rect width="600" height="750" rx="38" fill="white" stroke="black"/>
    <rect x="16" y="16" width="568" height="718" rx="24" fill="none" stroke="black" stroke-width="15"/>
    <text text-anchor="middle" font-family="Arial" font-size="150" font-weight="bold">
        <tspan x="300" y="200">FPS</tspan><tspan x="300" y="350">LIMIT</tspan><tspan x="300" y="660" font-size="350">15</tspan>
    </text>
  </svg>

[1]: https://github.com/RazrFalcon/svgcleaner

The image is 8 kilobytes for 10 characters, and actually it could have been done with just HTML and CSS. Speaking of which, don't look too hard at the page's HTML. Still I applaud the message.

P.S. Why do people put "index.php" in the URL? It would be so much prettier without it --- and a little less "bloated." ;)

what more could you want from website?

I guess once the site is less bloated, then the next step is less bloated content. Could that message have been reduced to the length of a Tweet?

And after that, unpublish it entirely - we'll see the site has changed when we see it.

Fewer websites with less content. Only the most interesting things. Who could argue against that?

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