Experiments in Reducing Global Page Loads on Hugo and Drupal 7 with Cloudflare

Experiments in Reducing Global Page Loads on Hugo and Drupal 7 with Cloudflare

Wednesday, May 8, 2019
I am very keen on pushing the limits of performance, especially as a way of teaching myself ways to be able to improve application performance (albeit this is a static HTML page load with some JavaScript). My aim was to be able to load pages from https://www.willhallonline.co.uk and https://www.motnearme.co.uk in less that a second (on a reasonable connection), globally. Background I rebuilt this site between 1 year and 4 months ago using Hugo. ...

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Adding Prism.js Code Highlighting to Hugo (or any other markdown based site)

Adding Prism.js Code Highlighting to Hugo (or any other markdown based site)

Friday, Apr 12, 2019
Adding a code highlighter is a really nice way to both show code on your site in a more decorative way, but also to make it easier for users to reproduce what you may be asking them to do. I recently (around February) rebuilt my Drupal site into Hugo and when migrating the content, one of the core things I wanted to do was get really nice highlighting of code, especially as I use my blog to remember things that I was doing 2, 3, 4, 5 years ago. ...

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