None. Nothing on the client side, nothing on the
server side. Pure HTML and CSS
with a few lines of JavaScript on the
client side, and straight PHP with MySQL on
the server side, and that's it. I use no frameworks, no
“libraries,” no extenal scripts, no external
CSS, no “APIs,” no font files, no cookies—and
no AI. Everything is extremely simple.
None of the garbage that bloats almost every
site on the web these days.
So what? It’s content that counts—right? The
page you are readng is literally a hundred times
smaller than the average web page on the
Internet these days. My site doesn’t even
require JavaScript (although a few parts, such
as the photo galleries, will use it if
it’s enabled).
Most web sites are around 4 MB in
size and may load two hundred files per page.
Mine is about 0.2 MB in size and typically loads
four or five files. Load time for my site is
about 300 ms, compared to around 19,000 ms for more
typical sites.
None. At one time I was downloading custom
fonts, initially from Google, until it dawnd on
me that Google was using this to track visitors to
my site. So I moved the fonts to my server and
downloaded them from there. But I finally
decided that custom fonts weren’t really that
useful, so all custom fonts are disabled right
now (look at the page source code and see for
yourself).
I use very little JavaScript, and I wrote it
myself, and I certainly do not load any third-
party JS from external sites. Who knows
what might be hidden in that external JS code?
I created all the images used on my site, too.
Even most of the icons (such as the plus and
minus icons you see next to these questions) are
my own work, created in Adobe Ilustrator and
incorporated as SVG elements.
I use a text editor (an old copy of UltraEdit) to
write the code, and SecureCRT
to SSH into the server. I use SecureFX for movinng
data files. That’s it.
By the way, I can reommend all three of these products wthout reservation,
they are all excellent. SecureCRT and SecureFX, in particular,
are second to none, and are among the most reliable and bug-free producs
I’ve ever used.
I’m still renovating the site, so sections that I’d like to eventually
rebuild are grayed out for now. The Reviews
section is about the only part still waiting for renovation,
but I will probably add more content thereafter.
Since 1997 (29 years!), my site has received
24,348,381 visitors. Currently it is receiving an average
of about 1,595 unique daily
visitors—but probably less than one percent of them are human
(the rest are bots, scanners, spiders, scrapers, crawlers, etc.).
