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Cool! I've always wanted something like this. Usually I just have to manually remove redundant CSS and styling options.

Can you explain why the viewport width and height are needed?

Content that appears in the viewport before scrolling is considered 'above-the-fold' and is thus prioritised to load quickest. The viewport dimensions are used to figure out what will be above-the-fold.

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