Minifying css for 11ty sites is quick and simple. Quick Tip #001—Inline minified CSS Using the CleanCSS plugin and moving the css file to _includes and then pulling the code into one line in the base.njk head.

There are many 11ty resources available but the one that I started with to get me going is Kevin Powell's Turn static HTML/CSS into a blog with CMS using the JAMStack and I keep going back to it!

A recent Mastodon post and blog post about writing less from Matt Gemmell made me think about the old short posts this site used to have. They were quick thoughts and links to remember for the future so I am starting them up again and I will be adding some of the old ones back onto the site.

Steps to verify your website on your Mastodon profile Winters coming (Nothern hemisphere) and it's time to migrate. There is a large outbreak of avian birdflu around at the moment and in short people are looking toward other platforms to provide them with a Twitter experience. Luckily for me the SEO community, whom...

Time to sit back and do some model making Lockdown in 2020 had been an odd year. I was really busy – which is a good thing but a surprising one. Initially, I thought we would have no work, I would have a lot of time on my hands and I would be able to get on with a few projects around the house, including my 009...

Chrome now natively lazy loads images and I explore how to do this with Cloudflare's Workers Some time ago Cloudflare announced that they were making Workers available. More recently, Google has built image Lazy Loading into its Chrome browser. The new loading attribute will speed up your pages in certain...

SEO experiments that no-one really cares about but they do increase the probability of other tests being useful. Pludgebanger. Every now and again I search for a word on Google that does not exist. Some people create words for their SEO testing and these are normally words that are highly unlikely to be an actual...

I wanted to see if I could use Google Data Studio (formally Google Looker Studio) to report on site migrations from http to https The four different variants of your website — http, https, www and non www — are seen as different websites by Google. Technically you can actually run different content under each of...

I built a new rail-bus in the style of Reinier Hendriksen I was inspired to build a copy of one of Reinier Hendriksen’s rail-buses from his original article of April 1999 edition of the 009 news, after I read the archived material from the 500th edition. For my version, I decided to use a Kato chassis as it wouldn’t...

The most vigorous software for quality content and SEO Safecont was an online SEO tool from Data elasticity S.L in Spain, that analyses your website content and highlights where you should consider improving the content. Google is updating their core algorithms on what appears to be a near daily basis. The old...

Embrace the security push With the announcement that Google will be highlighting all non-secure sites., https, from July 2018 website owners need to think about how their sites are being delivered to the public. For those not yet aware there are two protocols for web pages — http and https — HyperText Transfer...

Canonicals can trip up your sites SEO Originally conceived for situations where articles were duplicated they would reference the original. Google tends to choose the oldest version of a page that it can find (but not the only method it uses) and any other pages with the same or very similar content are considered...