Then it's lucky the author has done well in their career despite it :)
As an aside, if the author is around, you could make 90% of the site's font rendering become immediate very easily. The biggest things would be self-hosting the FA and Google Fonts stuff, and moving the TypeKit include to an async JS approach.
After that, you could restrict the preloader progress bar to just the balloon portion.
As an aside, if the author is around, you could make 90% of the site's font rendering become immediate very easily. The biggest things would be self-hosting the FA and Google Fonts stuff, and moving the TypeKit include to an async JS approach.
After that, you could restrict the preloader progress bar to just the balloon portion.