Comment by susam

I just checked my home page [1] and it has a compressed transfer size of 7.0 kB.

  /            2.7 kB
  main.css     2.5 kB
  favicon.png  1.8 kB
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  Total        7.0 kB

Not bad, I think! I generate the blog listing on the home page (as well as the rest of my website) with my own static site generator, written in Common Lisp [2]. On a limited number of mathematical posts [3], I use KaTeX with client-side rendering. On such pages, KaTeX adds a whopping 347.5 kB!

  katex.min.css              23.6 kB
  katex.min.js              277.0 kB
  auto-render.min.js          3.7 kB
  KaTeX_Main-Regular.woff2   26.5 kB
  KaTeX_Main-Italic.woff2    16.7 kB
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  Total Additional          347.5 kB

Perhaps I should consider KaTeX server-side rendering someday! This has been a little passion project of mine since my university dorm room days. All of the HTML content, the common HTML template (for a consistent layout across pages), and the CSS are entirely handwritten. Also, I tend to be conservative about what I include on each page, which helps keep them small.

[1] https://susam.net/

[2] https://github.com/susam/susam.net/blob/main/site.lisp

[3] https://susam.net/tag/mathematics.html