https://reijn.dev/tags/performance/Recent content in Performance on Niels ReijnHugoen-US<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC 4.0</a>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:40:24 +0200https://reijn.dev/posts/2026/04/improving-reijn.dev-performance-privacy-and-a-custom-theme-fork/Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200https://reijn.dev/posts/2026/04/improving-reijn.dev-performance-privacy-and-a-custom-theme-fork/<p>Over the past few weeks I made a series of improvements to this site. Nothing dramatic from the outside, but a meaningful cleanup under the hood. Here&rsquo;s a quick overview of what changed and why.</p> <h2 id="dropping-google-analytics">Dropping Google Analytics</h2> <p>The most straightforward change: I removed Google Analytics. Lighthouse flagged 60 KiB of unused JavaScript loaded from Google&rsquo;s servers on every page visit. Beyond the performance cost, it felt inconsistent to run a site about privacy while silently shipping a third-party tracker. Gone.</p>