pljns

These are all good points that I knew when I hastily pushed the site last week. Still way under 1000kb!

Also, I said my blog, but serves me right I guess ;-)

The average Web page now does more than the average Doom install, I don't see the relevance of this.

Although I get really annoyed when I visit a blog post whose page is 100x larger than Dostoevsky's novels in .txt format. On my blog (https://pljns.com/blog/), JQuery and genericons are often my largest file transfers, but I still clock under 500kb.

Disable Javascript ;-)

Parse's advantage was not only convenience but multiplatform.

You're right, thanks for the criticism. I'm experimenting with blogging, and I've learned my posts need to be even more substantive.

Thank you!

I didn't suspect so much traffic, we're back up now :)

I look forward to hearing my grandkids saying this in disbelief, to which I respond, "No, really, we carted around a massive tank of highly flammable liquid. To make matters worse, we actually steered vehicles ourselves."