Monthly Archive: July 2020

Optimizing CSS

Based on my last post “Google Core Web Vitals 2020” i’ll review and optimize my CSS declarations, as Lighthouse complains already: “Eliminate render-blocking resources”. So here we go: Step 1) analyze existing css-file and remove unused stuff Who needs comments anyway 😉 Step 2) separate CSS files The next thing came into my mind, was trying to separate css for...

Google Core Web Vitals 2020

In May 2020 google announced that the so called “Core Web vitals” will influence the google site ranking. So, besides mobile friendliness, safe browsing, HTTPS and “non-intrusive interstitials” (aka popup-ads) the following three elements of the “Core Web vitals” will have a big influence on a sites ranking: – Loading: Measured by the “Largest Contentful Paint” (LCP) – Interactibility: Measured...

Git – Good to know

In this post i’d like to note some handy tricks when using git. Good to know: git commit –amend = replace (add to) last commit git remote add <alias> <URL> = connect remote repository git push origin/<branch> = upload changes to remote repository git restore – use this command to undo local changes and replace the file with the one...

Linux Mint

Recently i switched the OS on my main mashine to Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia. Before i was using Ubuntu for about 6 years, when moving away from Macos, which was getting to cumbersome, proprietary and slow on the mac. Now, Ubuntu was not getting to slow, but there are good reasons to slowly leave canonical – namely Snap.. Slowly, because...