The favicon is 175 bytes, smaller than the size of the HTTP headers to
fetch it. It can be inlined.
Now, pages that don't have any other images need just a single request.
The main stylesheet for the sit is just 721 bytes uncompressed. I can
inline it safely to shave off a request, since the headers alone are
probably comparable to the size of the CSS.
The newish APCA contrast algorithm correctly reveals that blue-on-black
and purple-on-black links have lower perceptual contrast than
yellow-on-black links.
A Fediverse survey with 19 participants revealed that others tend to
prefer the older look over this one, but the number in favor was much
larger than I thought; it was a 3:2 split. I decided that on my poor
laptop screen facing sunlight with simulated color vision deficiencies,
the yellow links are indeed easier to read so I went with them.
ECT is more efficient than Zopfli given the same amount of time. It uses
Zopfli under the hood.
- Switch from binaries.tar.br to binaries.tar.gz
- Bring in the statically-linked ect/brotli binaries from
binaries.tar.gz
- Mention another time that it's in response to online
discussions/comments, not the authors of certain blog posts
- Clarify that there's nothing wrong with adding this header to your
site if you manage your expectations and DON'T accuse others of
complicity or change upstream software
Matt from Gigablast answered some of my questions; I updated the article
with information from him. Some of that information found its way to the
"Rationale" section.
70 iterations seems to be the point at which we hit diminishing returns.
The combined size difference of all *.gz files with 70 iterations and
1000 iterations is 65 bytes.
