So—this website used to be 18.9MB. When I originally developed the site in 2013, I built it on a content management system called Stacey, a lightweight and easy to learn platform I could develop my own theme for.
Now, a decade later, Stacey is no longer developed. Combined with my hosting service dropping support for older PHP versions, the website would no longer load.
This version of the site you’re currently on is no longer using Stacey, but is instead a faithful recreation made in WordPress, along with a few minor but needed modern upgrades (and a couple spelling errors, finally caught and corrected a decade on.)
But that means technically, this site is 97.6MB—however, I’ve opted to have the header still display original file size, in recognition of the original 2013 website and what a simpler time the internet was back then.