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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My Internet History in Web Browsers

My Internet History in Web Browsers

Thursday, Apr 18, 2019
I was recalling recently of my history with the Internet. Having been both an active user and developer for at least the last 23 years (that seems strange), I think that there is nothing that so completely has dominated my internet life as the browser that I have been using. Year to Browser Use (Percentage) Year Internet Explorer Firefox Chrome Chromium Brave 2000 100 2001 100 2002 100 2003 100 2004 100 2005 50 50 2006 10 90 2007 10 90 2008 10 50 40 2009 20 80 2010 20 80 2011 20 80 2012 20 80 2013 20 80 2014 20 80 2015 20 80 2016 20 50 30 2017 20 50 10 20 2018 30 10 60 2019 30 70 2000-2005 - The PC Years In the early PC year (which probably stretch before 2000), my PC life was dominated by Microsoft. ...

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