I was looking at the page sizes, and noticed that the
wikipedia.ico<http://bits.wikimedia.org/favicon/wikipedia.ico> file
is 15KB, which is about 14% of the average m. page size. Unfortunatelly,
this download is not reported by either firefox or chrome dev tools due to
know <http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mozilla.firefox.firebug/9253>
bugs <https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=110449>, so it
might have been overlooked in our site performance review.
Can we shrink it somehow? Or is there a reason to keep it as is?
I tried shrinking it with GIMP to 4bit - and got a 5x reduction. There are
some color changes, but I don't know much about images, so possibly some
pixel hunting by a designer is needed. Also, I tried 4bit+PNG option, which
might not be supported by every browser, especially some mobile ones, and
it got me an extra 569 bytes (21%)
Lastly, do we really need 3 different sizes - 16,32,64? Can we do 16 & 64?