Various Improvements To This Website
This page is a log of major improvements to this website.
Optimize Index Page Load Time
The time is 2024-04-17. I suddenly decided to improve the load time of this site.
I used the following settings when testing: Speed Throttling: GPRS. Cache Disabled.
Adding a single <link rel="preload"/> tag for the external link indicator brings the index page’s load time from 2.56s down to 1s! The order of tags inside <head> is actually important! Tip: put the most important CSS files first.
P.S. The emulated GPRS speed seems faster than I imagined.
Lume News
In case you haven’t visited the about page of this website, you now know that this website is made with Lume.
Lume now has a content-management system and a template-based file-creation system. Although I don’t need either of those features, you should check it out!
SVG Icons
I got this idea from staring at the nav bar of https://play.date/.
background-image is a thing of the past. (-webkit-)mask-image is better, which, along with background-color: currentColor, allows text-colored SVG icons to exist.
These are the icons: . You can find them on the table of contents page, with or without JS.
One caveat when using mask-image: url(image.svg#id): #id can only target a SVG shape such as <path>, not other elements like <g>.