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Awesome! I dumped Disqus and Google Analytics earlier this year, too. I hadn't thought about Google Fonts, so I'll dump that soon, too. Since you are using Clo

Awesome! I dumped Disqus and Google Analytics earlier this year, too. I hadn't thought about Google Fonts, so I'll dump that soon, too. Since you are using CloudFront, I highly recommend http://s3stat.com http://s3stat.com for analytics. It grabs CloudFront's (or S3's) server access logs and visualizes them. For search, I like this method Mat Hayward uses for Jekyll: https://github.com/mathaywarduk/jekyll-search https://github.com/mathaywarduk/jekyll-search Dump the site contents out into a JSON file with the titles and links accessible, crawl through the JSON file with javascript whenever someone runs a search, then display the results. I know you use Hyde instead of Jekyll, but you can port over the general idea.

CobrastanJorji 8y ago
There's one small downside to using your own font. The Google Font is very likely already cached in the browser and won't need to load from anywhere remote. An even better solution might be to just not specify a specific font unless you really, really need one.
- LeoNatan25 8y ago
  Use a system font stack. Both macOS and Windows come with good font choices, and Linux … is Linux, more often than not, users are not even aware of typography or why it matters.
  - przmk 8y ago
    That's pretty dismissive of Linux users. Just because someone uses Linux, doesn't mean that person doesn't care about design.
    - LeoNatan25 8y ago
      Of course. It’s just my subjective experience that most don’t. It’s to the point most don’t know what ligatures and stylistic sets are. Most Linux software lacks basic OpenType features support.
      - detaro 8y ago
        > It’s to the point most don’t know what ligatures and stylistic sets are. As if the majority of Windows and Mac OS users would know that.
        eftychis 8y ago
        Since a noticeable at least portion of Mac OS users have some artistic vein one would argue for Mac OS users. For Windows my personal opinion is the average user has no idea. I think for Linux/BSD etc there is a part of users that know or have some idea but don't care enough personally. I comment from experience -- not aware of any study that looks for correlation :D
  - bwbw223 8y ago
    Are you sure about that? https://reddit.com/r/unixporn https://reddit.com/r/unixporn

CobrastanJorji 8y ago

There's one small downside to using your own font. The Google Font is very likely already cached in the browser and won't need to load from anywhere remote. An even better solution might be to just not specify a specific font unless you really, really need one.

LeoNatan25 8y ago
Use a system font stack. Both macOS and Windows come with good font choices, and Linux … is Linux, more often than not, users are not even aware of typography or why it matters.
- przmk 8y ago
  That's pretty dismissive of Linux users. Just because someone uses Linux, doesn't mean that person doesn't care about design.
  - LeoNatan25 8y ago
    Of course. It’s just my subjective experience that most don’t. It’s to the point most don’t know what ligatures and stylistic sets are. Most Linux software lacks basic OpenType features support.
    - detaro 8y ago
      > It’s to the point most don’t know what ligatures and stylistic sets are. As if the majority of Windows and Mac OS users would know that.
      - eftychis 8y ago
        Since a noticeable at least portion of Mac OS users have some artistic vein one would argue for Mac OS users. For Windows my personal opinion is the average user has no idea. I think for Linux/BSD etc there is a part of users that know or have some idea but don't care enough personally. I comment from experience -- not aware of any study that looks for correlation :D
- bwbw223 8y ago
  Are you sure about that? https://reddit.com/r/unixporn https://reddit.com/r/unixporn