Blog-o-Goodness
I just found this today. Was trying to figure out how to make it that when I made a “future dated” post, that when the post finally published the site would be updated to show it. What I had been doing was clicking a “Purge All Caches” every time I published a post so that … Read more
my discussion here:Site speedup – preloading pages on mouseover Note: Since the license of this instant.page thing is very permissive and since I want to have a backup copy of it in case the Cloudflare hosted copy disappears one day, here is a copy of the code: from https://instant.page/license instant.page’s license © 2019 Alexandre Dieulot … Read more
I came across this clever thing for making a website seem faster to user. This is pretty clever since a lot of what makes a computer “seem” fast is the way it responds to the user moreso than how fast it is. I recall this was an early Apple Macintosh trick – make *something* happen … Read more
Google thinks the web should be fast, and that’s kinda the final word. Here’s some (older but still useful) info on site speed as a ranking factor.
I recently found a useful website for testing your website’s speed – it checks the website by accessing it from multiple locations (in multiple countries) and thus gives a better test than just checking the speed in your own browser.