PERFORMANCE: Improve initial page load experience

[ZibanPirate]

Description

Performance improvement branch, resolves #306

please branch out of feat/improve_initial_page_load_experience for any changes related to performance improvement

Tasks

• [ ] Prioritize content loading over unnecessary assets that can be lazy-loaded (for example article content over GH contributors)
• [ ] Dynamically render components
• [ ] Cache Backend-to-data source requests/queries
• [ ] Consider SSR
• [ ] Do more work on the backend (for example fetching contributors lists and returning their avatars).

Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)