Cut the payload on one route
One route's weight reduced through image sizing, lazy loading, and code splitting, measured before and after.
The ticket
Reduce the transferred payload of one route without changing what it renders.
Acceptance criteria
- Transferred bytes are measured before and after
- Images are sized and served in a modern format
- Code not needed for first render is split out
- A visual comparison shows the rendered result is unchanged
What lands as proof
Byte measurements before and after, plus a visual comparison proving nothing was dropped to achieve them.
Why teams defer it
- The team develops on fast connections and warm caches, so the weight is invisible day to day.
- Every kilobyte was added by somebody solving a real problem, so removing it means understanding why it is there.
Questions
- What does the agent actually change?
- The ticket is scoped to one outcome: reduce the transferred payload of one route without changing what it renders. Work that serves that outcome is in scope, and anything outside it is left for a separate ticket, so the pull request stays reviewable.
- How do I know the work is done?
- The pull request carries the evidence, not only the diff. Here that means measured before and after in the pull request, so a reviewer can confirm the result without reproducing the work locally.
- How much oversight does this need?
- The run stops once the plan is written. Somebody reads the approach and approves it before any code exists, which is the cheapest moment to redirect the work.