Optimizations and tweaks
The minimal CMS and engine behind Take has gotten a few improvements along with minimal tweaks to the site look.
Particularly important to me, there is now a step which minimizes the HTML of all pages. The front page (which for me is slightly heavier since I'm logged in) now weighs in at 40 353 bytes for me, and contains 31 661 characters of text, for a 78.4% text-to-HTML density.
For comparison:
Today's issue of the text-heavy (but also interactive-charts-heavy) Electoral-vote.com clocks in at ~9.8% (31 363 vs 320 055)
Daring Fireball's latest full-text article page at ~47.6% (6 951 vs 14 602)
CloudFlare's Medium-hosted How we made our page-load optimisations even faster at ~5.3% (13 196 vs 251 035)
(Play along home by running
[document.body.innerText.length, document.body.parentElement.outerHTML.length, (document.body.innerText.length / document.body.parentElement.outerHTML.length) * 100]
in the developer tools console of your browser.
Please be advised that this is in no way a useful representative measure of bloat since it completely disregards the potential freight train of externally included resources, and punishes links, tables and images. For me, now, it's a good measure of the whitespace-removing and HTML-simplifying minification process, and the rest is just in good fun.)