That's it, #512kbClub has been handed over to @bt, which makes total sense as I originally got the idea from his 1MB Club anyway.

Glad the project hasn't died and that it's gone to a good home.

I really take for granted how small the footprint for the site actually is.

#webdev #512kbclub #indieweb #smallweb

J'adore l'idée derrière le 512KB Club https://512kb.club/ mais j'adorerais voir des sites institutionnels, d'entreprises, de clubs, d'associations ou autres. 99% de ces sites sont des sites persos et pour la plupart, de dev. Ça rend quand même le truc sacrément moins intéressant à explorer. #512KBClub
512KB Club

The 512KB Club is an exclusive list of web pages weighing less than 512 kilobytes.

512KB Club
🤣 Oh, the trials of reducing your bloated Next.js site to fit into the oh-so-exclusive 512KB Club. 🤔 Let's remove that massive dog photo—because who needs adorable, right?—and maybe you'll finally be worthy of a virtual participation trophy. 🏆✨
https://www.calvinbarker.com/blog/vibecoding-my-personal-site-into-the-512kb-club #NextJS #512KBClub #webdevelopment #bloatedsite #techhumor #digitaloptimization #HackerNews #ngated
Vibecoding my personal site into the 512KB Club

How I used Cursor, ChatGPT, and some trial-and-error to optimize my Next.js personal website from 600KB to 493KB to join the 512KB Club.

Vibecoding my personal site into the 512KB Club

How I used Cursor, ChatGPT, and some trial-and-error to optimize my Next.js personal website from 600KB to 493KB to join the 512KB Club.

Lots of "firsts" this week for me:

1. Completed pull requests on 3 projects & got them all merged! Esp proud of the #retext #markdown editor syntax highlighting fix.

2. Joined a web-ring (if you could call it that?) community—#512kbclub by @kev!

In the end I got it down to 499kB. MonaspaceVar font taking up a good 100kB+ chunk of the uncompressed total. I need to find a spot to put the club badge! Excited :)

3. Bought an official #nanoblock #ultraman 200pc (only had knockoffs before).

Found the 512kb.club , and absolutely immediately wanted to add my site to it!

After scanning my home page, its total size was ~122kb - just 22kb short of the shiny "Green team" treshold!

"The 'heaviest' part of my index page are the couple of images!", I thought.

"I'll just refactor the Eleventy Image parameters I use and I'll probably get that down!"...

And so I did...

And it's now ~266kb.. 😂

So it's the illustrious Blue Team for me until I read up on Eleventy Image and Sharp to actually understand what the hell I'm doing with those parameters! 😄

#512kbClub #11ty #webDev #imageOptimization

@paninodesu Agreed. Maybe this new Vivaldi feature will make it easier to name and shame offenders. Still, even small sites take up too much. I'm on the Green Team on Kev's #512KBClub and the tab still takes almost 40MB of RAM. Why 40MB for a page that's less than 100K?

My blog has become a part of #512kbclub.

Check out my #blog : https://aruniverse.neocities.org/

Idea behind my blog: I'm aiming for a minimalist, content-focused design with a single, long, infinite scroll-type page. I'll pour all my blog ideas into one extensive index.html file. Ya you read it right an infinite scroll blog.

#neocities #singlepage #website

Arunkumar's Microverse

Arunkumar is a minimalist and experimental blogger who loves to write and read. He is a project manager by day and a writer, and blogger and a reader at night.

Happily, my website is now part of the #512kbClub - https://512kb.club/

Fantastic!

512KB Club

The 512KB Club is an exclusive list of web pages weighing less than 512 kilobytes.

512KB Club