Offline file size is too big (2MB each plot). Could we split src & data files to be more scalable?

[cariacou]

Hello,

I like the API. very useful to generate beautiful graphs.
I am trying to integrate it in a project, but unfortunately it does not seem very scalable.

Each plot (basic plots, 200 data pts ) has file size (.html) of 2MB.
If I want to make 1000 plots, plotly offline will generate 2GB worth of data.
I think we should be able to shrink this, not to 10002MB but 1000200pts+overhead, which should be less than 4MB.

[DavidUnzue]

It would be nice if we had an option like Python's API has with include_plotlyjs (see here) to disable plotly.js source code in the generated HTML file. Instead, one could load plotly.js globally outside of the generated HTML. This would help reduce the size of the output files.