Yep!

No, that's just the page's background gradient so there's already something even before the inlined SVG renders.

Actually, there's a hand-drawn SVG illustration of the hero landscape being displayed with a CSS blur filter while the image is loading.

Glad you noticed! There's one or two things that could be a little bit better but, overall, it's a step in the right direction (there are no render-blocking scripts, no png/jpg, most svgs are minified and inlined, …).

Glad you noticed it :)

Stylesheets aren't expensive to execute at all. Do some research. End of topic, please.

Nope, it's not absurd. It's, in fact, 100% right.

1. li + li is not a descendant selector.
2. You should basically never care about selector performance anyway. To quote Paul Irish:

You are not allowed to care about the performance of * unless you concatenate all your javascript, have it at the bottom, minify your css and js, gzip all your assets, and losslessly compress all your images.

I'm… not sure to get your point. ಠ_ಠ

Why?