I started redesigning my website a several weeks ago, my objective was to create a centralized hub for sharing written information, code, video, and photography. It was rather easy to solve most of those problems, and sharing my latest YouTube video was simple at first.
I had this niggling feeling that my new website was on the heavyweight side, after all it’s WordPress based and I had a few plugins. The annoying reCaptcha logo was popping up everywhere, even when it wasn’t used. After using the Coverage tab in Chrome and installing yet more WordPress plugins to trim the fat, I tried get it down to as small a footprint as I could. Then came the Google PageSpeed Insights. Sometimes we are blissfully unaware of our problems and go through life with blinders on, PageSpeed Insights simultaneously woke me and gave me yet another obsession to chase.
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