Although I am an experienced designer, I have always worked with a product team. So I don’t have any front-end experience. Long story short I built this portfolio site in hype http://lesleyps.github.io not realizing I’d have this crazy large file that sometimes doesn’t load. I now know that hype isn’t a web-site builder but maybe there’s something I can do to save this. And Suggestions would be much appreciated.
The primary reason the page may load slowly is that you have very large images that are set to preload.
For example, the Mylife-WSFY_2x.webp image measures in at 6400x4268 and is 1.5 MB. For reference, Apple's 31" 6k Pro Display XDR only has 6016x3384 pixels, so this is likely overkill 
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You can probably: make the image smaller, compress the image more, and disable preloading in Hype's Resources Library.
I recommend looking at the dev tools of your browser and see what assets are taking up the largest size and trying to optimize them. There's lots of other general information here: