On tooling

This article takes a quick look at some of the tools being used to build Fitness Tracker and goes over why I chose to use each of them.

June 22, 2025

Final results from my site improvement program

After a very busy week, I ran another SiteImp report and checked my progress. Results were fairly good though I have reached a point where my optimizations have started to cause improvements in some areas and regressions in others. I'll conclude my series on optimizing hluska.ca.

January 15, 2022

Checking in on these changes

I ran a second SiteImp audit to check out what sort of performance impact working on my critical resource path created. My results were good at the beginning, but the simple changes made a big difference.

January 8, 2022

Using rel=preload to speed up render blocking resources on hluska.ca

When I ran a Siteimp audit on hluska.ca, I found that 100% of my pages (both desktop and mobile) had performance problems because I had too many resources that blocked my page from rendering while they were being downloaded. I'm going to start fixing that error in this article.

January 7, 2022

Thinking about CSS to speed up hluska.ca

When I ran a Siteimp audit on hluska.ca, I found that 100% of my pages (both desktop and mobile) had performance problems because I had too many resources that blocked my page from rendering while they were being downloaded. I'm going to start fixing that error in this article.

January 7, 2022

Introducing Siteimp

Last night, I launched something very important to me and pushed DNS on siteimp. Siteimp is a tool that runs website performance audits.

January 7, 2022