No one else in my team cares about optimization, what should I do?
is closed as
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I've asked if we could at least compress the images and minify the CSS/JS but the rest of the team aren't worried about it. I'm happy to do this work myself and it goes against my principles to produce a website that's slow. But I need their approval to make these changes. I don't have the authority to force this issue since I'm a contractor.
which explains what OP wants to do to make the situation better.
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Question looks fine to me.
Bluntly -- what the heck?