I’m like a caveman finding a new shiny pebble.

There’s nothing wrong with the old shiny pebble I’d been enamored with seconds ago, it’s just that … It’s new! Look how shiny it is!

I’ve been experimenting with various methods of cutting this site’s load time, particularly through asynchronously loading blocking files like webfonts and scripts.

I’d been using the Adobe/Google asynchronous font loader, but Adam Beres-Deak’s method became my latest new shiny pebble. His script loader limits the font palette to WOFF and WOFF2 files which have been encoded as base-64... More

I’ve been writing about my efforts to make my site load faster. Read Part 1 here.

But like that young Jedi so long ago, I was not always able to levitate the ship out of the swamp. Probably because I didn’t believe enough.

Either, way, here are some methods that I tried and ended up not using.

###What was a wash

• Lazy loading or concatenating my javascript and didn’t make much of a difference. Likely because my concatenated scripts are only 18K.
• Paying extra for CDN web hosting. My time to first byte varies widely, from as... More