Have removed jquery and it's properly sped up. Got the photos working again, a nice gallery rotating in the middle of the screen there, and all without a big bloated library of javascript. Just my own library of only slightly bloated javascript.
Following tips from yellowlab.tools1 that I mentioned before. Still a way to go, but the homepage now gets a really good score with no loss of functionality. This blog is slightly hostage to the content I post here, so there might be big images and there might be twitter gadgets or whatever so it's not quite as fast, but it's not bad.
javascript: Programming language of the internets, mostly how I earn a wage.
Paul Clarke's weblog - I live in Hythe near Folkestone. Wed to Clare and dad to 2, I am a full stack web developr, + I do mostly javascript / Node, some ruby, other languages etc. I like pubbing, parkrun, restaurants, home automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, family tree stuff, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, + time travel.