Four things that made my Eleventy website faster without removing the fun
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A web developer shares four practical optimizations that reduced bandwidth and improved page performance on their Eleventy site hosted on Netlify. The changes include: trimming an RSS feed from 4.5MB to a few kilobytes by switching to summaries and limiting to 25 posts; converting thousands of images from WebP to AVIF for an average 65% size reduction; lazy-loading animated SVGs by initially serving a static AVIF and swapping in the animation after render on larger screens; and adopting a mindset shift from 'how to make things smaller' to 'does the browser need this right now.' The author emphasizes that performance is an ongoing process, not a one-time fix.
