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Article update: include advice on avatar image

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Include info on using an avatar image/profile photo without
significantly increasing the footprint of a website, by re-using the
favicon image.
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In general, avoid using inline images just for decoration. Only use an image if it significantly adds to your content, and provide alt-text as a fallback.
If you want to include a profile photo (e.g., if your website is part of the IndieWeb), I recommend re-using one of your favicons. Since most browsers will fetch your favicons anyway, re-using them should be relatively harmless.
## Layout
This is possibly the most subjective item I'm including, and the item with the most exceptions. Consider it more of a weak suggestion than hard advice. Use your own judgement.

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In general, avoid using inline images just for decoration. Only use an image if it
significantly adds to your content, and provide alt-text as a fallback.
If you want to include a profile photo (e.g., if your website is part of the
IndieWeb), I recommend re-using one of your favicons. Since most browsers will fetch
your favicons anyway, re-using them should be relatively harmless.
Layout
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The [250kb club](https://250kb.club/) gathers websites at or under 250kb, and also
rewards websites that have a high ratio of content size to total size.
The [10KB Club](https://10kbclub.com/) does the same with a 10kb homepage budget (excluding favicons and webmanifest icons). It also has guidelines for noteworthiness, to avoid low-hanging fruit like mostly-blank pages.
The [10KB Club](https://10kbclub.com/) does the same with a 10kb homepage budget
(excluding favicons and webmanifest icons). It also has guidelines for
noteworthiness, to avoid low-hanging fruit like mostly-blank pages.
Also see [Motherfucking Website](https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/). Motherfucking
Website inspired several unofficial sequels that tried to gently improve upon it. My