v1.5.20 - Faster pages
Every page now loads about 9 KB less JavaScript, one third-party request has been removed from the critical path, and the fonts arrive sooner.
Under-the-hood improvements
- Every page loads about 9 KB less JavaScript. A carousel library the theme no longer uses was still being sent to every visitor. It has been removed.
- One external request has been taken off the critical path. The theme used a small library from a public CDN to pick out the dominant colour of your images — the tint you see behind a hero and on post cards. It loaded from another server before the browser was allowed to start drawing your page. It now ships with the theme, so there is no external request and nothing to wait for. The colour tinting itself is unchanged, and is slightly more reliable than before.
- Your fonts start downloading sooner, so text settles into its final appearance earlier in the load.
- Scrolling is a little smoother, particularly on the homepage where the hero blur and the text reveal both respond to scroll position.
Nothing about how you write or configure a site changes in this release.