When I put together my first portfolio, I took high-res photos and put them straight on my homepage. Over fast fiber Wi-Fi, it looked great.
Then I showed the site to a client on 4G. It spun for nine painful seconds before loading. I had placed three raw camera photos totaling fourteen megabytes!
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