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-Welcome to the Svelte tutorial. This will teach you everything you need to know to build fast, small web applications easily.
+Welcome to the Svelte tutorial. This will teach you everything you need to know to build fast, compact web applications easily.
 
 You can also consult the [API docs](/docs) and the [examples](/examples), or — if you're impatient to start hacking on your machine locally — the [60-second quickstart](/docs#getting-started).