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I am all into finding stock Androids, and the replacement for my stock-Android Chinese eBay special phone will probably be chosen through your site. :) But I think you might want to put some effort into making this site smaller. It's currently 3.3 megabytes for a list of 60 phones with small thumbnails and a list of tech specs.

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It is planned but as sibling comment suggests, in the backlog for the moment.

If anyone is interested in the technical details -- I am using an angular-cli version that doesn't support AOT compilation so no tree shaking. Also no Angular Universal, therefore a loading screen.

I hate spinners. And hamburger menus.

I made https://www.prerender.cloud/ and it _might_ be useful here - that is, solving that initial 3.3mb loading penalty for the JS. But it may require removing your loading screen so the screen doesn't flash to loading after the initial prerendered payload comes down.

Sounds excellent to me. I think many modern webpages are 10's of megabytes (which is lame).

I guess the specific audience of people looking for good stock phones might be operating off of a low cost data plan though? Otherwise of the many things the author could work on (improve curation, link to Swappa for purchase), I wonder if shaving a megabyte off the size is the most pressing issue.

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