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lelandfe on Feb 8, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Has anyone here successfully earning side ...

Your Sentry JS script is brutalizing your first contentful paint times, which directly impacts bounce rate. Death to blocking external resources. If you inline, it will reduce what is likely your median FCP by nearly a full second and probably get you passing Core Web Vitals.

Before (FCP 2.1s): https://www.webpagetest.org/video/view.php?tests=220208_AiDc...

After (FCP 1.3s): https://www.webpagetest.org/video/view.php?tests=220208_AiDc...

(Also, you're loading a Google Fonts CSS file and then not using Open Sans. Also also, your fonts.gstatic.com preconnect wouldn't work even if you did use the font – you'll need `crossorigin`. See: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-fonts-3/#font-fetching-requirement...)

adithyasrin on Feb 8, 2022 [–]

That's both good shouts. Pretty funny someone spotted this in two days. Introduced it recently and it's scheduled for removal today.

Thanks!

lelandfe on Feb 8, 2022 | [–]

Your performance is excellent otherwise! Nice site :)

adithyasrin on Feb 8, 2022 | | [–]

Thanks! I removed the scripts earlier today btw.

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