diff --git a/www/src/assets/style.css b/www/src/assets/style.css
index eea117b..e09aca2 100644
--- a/www/src/assets/style.css
+++ b/www/src/assets/style.css
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
   --visited-link: #be95ff; 
   --highlight: #33b1ff;
 
-  background: url('/assets/bg.svg');
+  background: #202020 url('/assets/bg.svg');
   background-size: 30px;
   display: flex;
   align-items: center;
diff --git a/www/src/templates/page.hy b/www/src/templates/page.hy
index 1273f0e..aeb9ef2 100644
--- a/www/src/templates/page.hy
+++ b/www/src/templates/page.hy
@@ -11,8 +11,14 @@
   (run "echo > /tmp/footnote_count")
   `(html (:lang "en") 
     (head ()
+      (style #[[
+        :root {
+          background: #202020;
+        } 
+        body {display: none}]])
+      (link (:rel preload :href "/assets/style.css" :as style))
+      (link (:rel preload :href "/assets/bg.svg" :as image))
       (link (:rel "stylesheet" :href "/assets/style.css" :type "text/css"))
-      (link (:rel preload :href "/assets/style.css"))
       (meta (:http-equiv "content-type" :content "text/html; charset=utf-8"))
       (meta (:name "viewport" :content "width=device-width, initial-scale=1"))
       (meta (:name "author" :content ~author))