I really enjoy trying to make things as bloat free as possible but also retaining some styling, unlike motherfuckingwebsite.com.

Many of my posts use images and I use Google Analytics so I made a text only one and disabled GA to see how it compares. With your trick of the inline stylesheet I got a massive speed improvement[0], down from about 100ms to between 60-70ms.

I too use Hugo. I host the site on a $10 VPS from digital ocean located in London, but I also use Cloudflare to speed up image delivery.

I'm not sure where your site is physically hosted but testing from Amsterdam we're pretty much the same given the 1KB page size difference.

Very cool post and thanks for the tips!

[0] http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/bvkhPp/http://josharcher.uk/...