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Alternative question: really fast and SEO optimized personal sites?

I've gotten my site down to ~0.5s load time and rank for a number of tech SERPs, still get a few thousand visits from Google per day for 5-10 year old articles: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/

SEO is overrated. Focus on high-quality content that people want to link to.

Case in point: I have a podcast (in German) whose name is a common German phrase ("Gar nicht so einfach", which translates to "Not that easy"). In SERPs for that phrase, the first few results are usually dictionaries, but my podcast's site (https://xyrillian.de/noises/gnse/) usually appears around 7th or 8th place still on the first page. This is without me doing any SEO, and in fact, without keeping up a regular schedule. >_> But the few episodes that there are have been reviewed overwhelmingly positively, and that appears to be all it takes.

https://pasztor.at/blog/building-your-own-cdn

This is a great one. Basically you want a CDN for fast. He also embeds the b64 of images as well.

Or you can build your own CDN with Cloudflare Workers: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/tutorials/configur...

Did it with https://sdan.io/cdn (I host a ton of files so my other websites can quickly access them) an example: http://sdan.cc/gradient.jpg (may be a bit slow... it's 1MB)

Thats cool. Thanks

Thanks for the share, I didn't realize you could use Cloudflare workers for this too.

I did like that it defaults to spying turned off.

It will be great if you could start a seperate "Ask HN" thread for this.

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