I’ve mentioned before that I’m aware this site is too clunky and heavy. That’s partly WordPress’s fault, but as with all things WordPress, they have apps for that.
I’m still tweaking, but I’ve installed several new plugins for caching, lazy load, image compression, and stripping of unnecessary code. It’s improved the site’s speed considerably, though I’m still registering as sluggish on Google’s Speed Insights. However, my ad-blocker now shows less than half as many trackers as I had previously, which is a considerable improvement. Getting rid of those has been a goal of mine.
I’m aware that many or most of my readers use mobile devices, so I will likely install an AMP version of the site in the near future (and for those who don’t know, AMP is Google’s stripped-down, mobile-friendly version of HTML, which WordPress supports via a simple plugin); the only reason I’ve delayed this is that my comment system, Disqus, supports AMP but requires extensive setup to make it work. It will take me some time to figure it all out.
