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Can you change the png to a jpg in the home page? it takes a long time for me to load it on a slow connection

Running the image through oxipng reduced it from 1.5MB to 1MB.

It's still big, but I like to do that as a standard practice when I put PNGs on my websites. It's a free win.

WebP format is an even bigger savings. It tends to get the typical PNG down to around 50% of it's original size in lossless mode.

I've been seeing more and more people using AVIF now.