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I'll add two more points:

- Remove all non-essential scripts: ads, analytics, fonts, social, liveperson, disqus, truste, foresee, cookielaw, etc.

- Scale down or omit images

Not to be "that guy", as I mostly like modern Web design, but:

- and after the emergency is over, keep it that way

Sometimes I contemplate launching a copycat conglomerate like Rocket, but instead of international copies of American and Chinese ideas it would do fast, minimal bandwidth & js clones with real privacy. The main problem is that network economics are a hell of a moat.

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