Show HN: How we decreased website loading time by 24% with 3 improvements

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I am not sure I would consider #2 and #3 as "unusual changes". That being said I didn't realize you could do #1, definitely will give it a try.

tl;dr: 1. rel="preload" to pre-fetch JSON data ahead of API calls, 2. server-side caching, 3. removing 70kb of font-awesome related stuff.

Stupid click-baity headlines.

This thing may sound obvious to you but for newbie like me it wouldn't be the first step to make when optimising website performance.