Your portfolio site is probably broken in ways you haven't checked

Most developers spend weeks building their portfolio. The design, the animations, the perfect copy. Then they deploy it and never look at it again. I did the same thing. Until this week, when I actually checked mine properly for the first time. Here's what I found - and why your site probably has the same issues. The Audit I ran two checks. One for performance, one for security. Performance: Chrome DevTools → Network tab, throttled to Fast 3G. Security: securityheaders.com - paste your URL, get a grade. My results: Load time: 4.27s Data transferred: 227 kB Security grade: D Not catastrophic. But not good for a site whose entire purpose is to make a first impression on a hiring manager or potential client. The Performance Problem The culprit was immediately obvious in the Network tab: 16 separate PNG requests just for favicons and icons. Every request has overhead - DNS lookup, TCP handshake, HTTP round trip. 16 small image requests is worse than 1 slightly larger one. The fix: replace