diff --git a/src/i18n/index.ts b/src/i18n/index.ts
index d75fc9d..c0d5418 100644
--- a/src/i18n/index.ts
+++ b/src/i18n/index.ts
@@ -3,9 +3,19 @@ import i18n from 'i18next';
 import { initReactI18next } from 'react-i18next';
 import LanguageDetector from 'i18next-browser-languagedetector';
 
+// Only load German synchronously (default language)
 import translationDE from './locales/de';
-import translationEN from './locales/en';
-import translationSR from './locales/sr';
+
+// Lazy load other languages when needed
+const loadLanguage = async (lng: string) => {
+    if (lng === 'en' && !i18n.hasResourceBundle('en', 'translation')) {
+        const { default: translationEN } = await import('./locales/en');
+        i18n.addResourceBundle('en', 'translation', translationEN, true, true);
+    } else if (lng === 'sr' && !i18n.hasResourceBundle('sr', 'translation')) {
+        const { default: translationSR } = await import('./locales/sr');
+        i18n.addResourceBundle('sr', 'translation', translationSR, true, true);
+    }
+};
 
 i18n
     .use(LanguageDetector)
@@ -14,19 +24,21 @@ i18n
         resources: {
             de: {
                 translation: translationDE
-            },
-            en: {
-                translation: translationEN
-            },
-            sr: {
-                translation: translationSR
             }
         },
-        fallbackLng: 'en',
-        supportedLngs: ['en', 'de', 'sr'],
+        fallbackLng: 'de',
+        supportedLngs: ['de', 'en', 'sr'],
         interpolation: {
             escapeValue: false
         }
     });
 
+// Load language bundle when language changes
+i18n.on('languageChanged', loadLanguage);
+
+// Load initial language if not German
+if (i18n.language && i18n.language !== 'de') {
+    loadLanguage(i18n.language);
+}
+
 export default i18n;
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/vite.config.ts b/vite.config.ts
index 15dc5f8..60819e6 100644
--- a/vite.config.ts
+++ b/vite.config.ts
@@ -5,18 +5,24 @@ import mdx from '@mdx-js/rollup';
 import remarkFrontmatter from 'remark-frontmatter';
 import remarkMdxFrontmatter from 'remark-mdx-frontmatter';
 
-// Plugin to make CSS non-blocking using the print media trick
+// Plugin to make CSS non-blocking and remove unnecessary preloads
 function asyncCssPlugin(): Plugin {
   return {
     name: 'async-css',
     enforce: 'post',
     transformIndexHtml(html) {
-      // Convert blocking CSS to async loading with print media trick
-      return html.replace(
+      // Convert blocking CSS to async loading
+      html = html.replace(
         /<link rel="stylesheet" crossorigin href="(\/assets\/css\/[^"]+\.css)">/g,
         `<link rel="preload" href="$1" as="style" onload="this.onload=null;this.rel='stylesheet'">
 <noscript><link rel="stylesheet" href="$1"></noscript>`
       );
+
+      // Remove modulepreload for non-critical chunks (animations, icons loaded later)
+      html = html.replace(/<link rel="modulepreload" crossorigin href="\/assets\/js\/animations[^"]*\.js">\n?/g, '');
+      html = html.replace(/<link rel="modulepreload" crossorigin href="\/assets\/js\/icons[^"]*\.js">\n?/g, '');
+
+      return html;
     }
   };
 }