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[aaronhans]

The main things causing poor performance on prior versions of the site are:

• The bulk of rendering of pages being done on the client after retrieving the multi MB full dataset file.
• Large client side dependencies for bootstrap and font awesome

Changes to address this are:

• Do the home page, major paged sorts and the profile page all with static site generation so all that HTML is created at build time
• Remove the client side font awesome dependency with a new 11ty plugin that inlines the svgs based on the classnames during build. Getting access to this required a switch from jekyll to 11ty
• Using css purging to trim bootstrap dependencies down to only what is being used.

These changes took the lighthouse performance score on the homepage from 49 to 98. Since future ScanGov plans include auditing performance of sites in the dataset it will be nice to set an example with our own infrastructure.

The updates required a lot of changes. We shouldn't merge until we are confident we have parity. This version of the site can be browsed at https://d1ernd7wc7yhlq.cloudfront.net/

Looks like the last version of the site used the built in Github jekyll build for github pages. This now has a git action to run the 11ty build but the github pages configuration has to be modified to run against the gh-pages branch which is populated during the git action triggered build.