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-#+date: 2020-12-27
-#+title: Redesigning My Website: The 5 KB Result
-
-* A Brief History
-
-As a form of continuous learning and entertainment, I've been running a handful
-of websites since 2016 when I took my first programming courses in college. I
-maintain one main website, the place I consider the official website to
-represent me. Under this site, I have a handful of subdirectories and
-subdomains.
-
-One of the parts I've enjoyed the most about web development is the aspect of
-designing an identity for a web page and working to find exciting ways to
-display the site's content. Inevitably, this means I've changed the designs for
-my websites more times than I could possibly count. Since I don't really host
-anything on my main webpage that's vital, it allows me the freedom to change
-things as inspiration strikes.
-
-Historically, I've relied on core utilities for spacing, components, and layouts
-from [[https://getbootstrap.com][Bootstrap]] and added custom CSS for fonts, accents, colors, and other
-items. I also tend to create sites with no border radius on items, visible
-borders, and content that takes up the entire screen (using whitespace inside
-components instead of whitespace around my components).
-
-* The Redesign Process
-
-About a week ago, I found myself wishing for a new design yet again. The prior
-design was largely inspired by IBM's [[https://www.carbondesignsystem.com][Carbon Design System]] and relied on jQuery,
-Bootstrap, along with some compressed [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP][.webp]] images.
-
-To anyone who knows my preferences toward web design - and even in my personal
-life - it should be no surprise that I immediately started looking for
-inspiration on minimalism. While there are some decent minimalistic designs on
-sites like [[https://dribbble.com/search/shots/popular/web-design?q=minimalism][Dribbble]], people seem to mostly discuss [[https://brutalist-web.design][brutalist web design]] when you
-ask about minimalism. While brutalist web design doesn't have to be minimal, it
-often is.
-
-I suppose, in a way, I did create a brutalist website since my HTML is semantic
-and accessible, hyperlinks are colored and underlined, and all native browser
-functions like scrolling and the back button work as expected. However, I didn't
-think about brutalism while designing these sites.
-
-The new design followed a simple design process. I walked through the screens on
-my blog and asked myself: "Is this element necessary for a user?" This allowed
-me to first start by removing all javascript, which had the sole purpose of
-allowing users to open a collapsed navbar on mobile. Replacing the collapsible
-navbar allowed me to remove both jQuery and Bootstrap's javascript.
-
-Next, I removed things like author names (since I'm literally the only person
-who will ever write on this site), multiple ways to click on a blog post card,
-blog post descriptions, and the scroll-to-top button. It also helped to move all
-categories to a single page, rather than have each category on its own page.
-
-The final big piece to finish the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Kondo#KonMari_method][KonMari]]"-like part of my process was to
-remove Bootstrap CSS in its entirety. However, this meant pulling out a few very
-useful classes, such as `.img-fluid` and the default font stacks to keep in my
-custom CSS.
-
-After removing all the unnecessary pieces, I was finally able to reorganize my
-content and add a very small amount of custom CSS to make everything pretty.
-This took a brief amount of time, effectively just consisting of me
-converting =<div>= tags into things like =<ul>= lists and choosing accent
-colors.
-
-* The Results
-
-** Reflection
-
-So, what did all of this reorganizing do to my webpages?  Well, first, my
-websites are now *ridiculously fast*. Since the prior designs were also minimal
-and didn't have many images, they measured up in Firefox's Network Monitor
-around 300 KB - 600KB. After making the changes, my main site is at 5 KB
-transferred (22 KB total), and my blog is at 6.5 KB transferred (13 KB
-total). *That means the redesigned pages are less than 2% the size of the old
-designs.*
-
-Google Lighthouse ranks the new webpage as 100 in performance, accessibility,
-and best practices, with SEO at 92 since they think tap targets are not sized
-appropriately for mobile users. First contextual paints of the pages are under
-0.8 seconds with 0 ms of blocking time. However, the blog subdomain ranks at 100
-for all four categories! First contextual paints of the blog homepage are under
-1.0 seconds with 0 ms of blocking time, due to the fact that the CSS for my blog
-is within a separate CSS file, and the CSS for my main website is simply
-embedded in the HTML file.
-
-Now that everything is complete, I can confidently say I'm happy with the result
-and proud to look at the fastest set of websites I've created so far.