diff --git a/app/components/ClientProviders.tsx b/app/components/ClientProviders.tsx
index 93af8e9..b3cc013 100644
--- a/app/components/ClientProviders.tsx
+++ b/app/components/ClientProviders.tsx
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ const BackgroundBlobs = dynamic(() => import("@/components/BackgroundBlobs").cat
 });
 
 const ShaderGradientBackground = dynamic(
-  () => import("./ShaderGradientBackground"),
+  () => import("./ShaderGradientBackground").catch(() => ({ default: () => null })),
   { ssr: false, loading: () => null }
 );
 
diff --git a/app/components/ConsentBanner.tsx b/app/components/ConsentBanner.tsx
index 22f09dd..1ea4007 100644
--- a/app/components/ConsentBanner.tsx
+++ b/app/components/ConsentBanner.tsx
@@ -54,8 +54,6 @@ export default function ConsentBanner() {
             type="button"
             onClick={() => setMinimized(true)}
             className="shrink-0 text-xs text-stone-500 hover:text-stone-900 transition-colors"
-            aria-label="Minimize privacy banner"
-            title="Minimize"
           >
             {s.hide}
           </button>
diff --git a/app/components/ShaderGradientBackground.tsx b/app/components/ShaderGradientBackground.tsx
index 8f7240c..0dd4df8 100644
--- a/app/components/ShaderGradientBackground.tsx
+++ b/app/components/ShaderGradientBackground.tsx
@@ -1,9 +1,23 @@
 "use client";
 
-import React from "react";
+import React, { useEffect, useState } from "react";
 import { ShaderGradientCanvas, ShaderGradient } from "@shadergradient/react";
 
 const ShaderGradientBackground = () => {
+  const [supported, setSupported] = useState(true);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    try {
+      const canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
+      const gl = canvas.getContext("webgl") || canvas.getContext("experimental-webgl");
+      if (!gl) setSupported(false);
+    } catch {
+      setSupported(false);
+    }
+  }, []);
+
+  if (!supported) return null;
+
   return (
     <div
       style={{
diff --git a/middleware.ts b/middleware.ts
index 7fe0a11..5f2f24e 100644
--- a/middleware.ts
+++ b/middleware.ts
@@ -88,11 +88,15 @@ export function middleware(request: NextRequest) {
       return addHeaders(request, res);
     }
 
-    // Redirect bare routes to locale-prefixed ones
+    // Add locale prefix: rewrite root path (avoids redirect roundtrip), redirect others
     const preferred = pickLocaleFromHeader(request.headers.get("accept-language"));
-    const redirectTarget =
-      pathname === "/" ? `/${preferred}` : `/${preferred}${pathname}${search || ""}`;
-    responseUrl.pathname = redirectTarget;
+    if (pathname === "/") {
+      responseUrl.pathname = `/${preferred}`;
+      const res = NextResponse.rewrite(responseUrl);
+      res.cookies.set("NEXT_LOCALE", preferred, { path: "/" });
+      return addHeaders(request, res);
+    }
+    responseUrl.pathname = `/${preferred}${pathname}${search || ""}`;
     const res = NextResponse.redirect(responseUrl);
     res.cookies.set("NEXT_LOCALE", preferred, { path: "/" });
     return addHeaders(request, res);
diff --git a/next.config.ts b/next.config.ts
index af1b1df..538efd8 100644
--- a/next.config.ts
+++ b/next.config.ts
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ const nextConfig: NextConfig = {
   experimental:
     process.env.NODE_ENV === "production"
       ? {
-          optimizePackageImports: ["lucide-react", "framer-motion"],
+          optimizePackageImports: ["lucide-react", "framer-motion", "three", "@react-three/fiber"],
         }
       : {
           // In development, enable webpack build worker for faster builds
@@ -167,12 +167,12 @@ const nextConfig: NextConfig = {
         ],
       },
       {
-        // Only prevent caching for real-time/sensitive API routes
+        // Allow bfcache for n8n routes: use no-cache (revalidate) instead of no-store
         source: "/api/n8n/(.*)",
         headers: [
           {
             key: "Cache-Control",
-            value: "no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate",
+            value: "no-cache, must-revalidate",
           },
         ],
       },