Rescuing My Blog's Performance with jekyll-skyhook
2025-07-28
My blog's Google indexing failed, and PageSpeed Insights gave a dismal 43/100. The culprits? Google Fonts, YouTube embeds, and poorly optimized images. I built a Jekyll plugin, jekyll-skyhook, to fix this. It self-hosts fonts, uses a lightweight YouTube library, and implements image transformations, responsive images, and caching. The result? A soaring PageSpeed score of 99/100! jekyll-skyhook supports image format conversion (WebP, AVIF), automatic srcset generation for responsive images, and caching to avoid redundant processing, significantly boosting blog performance.
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