I was testing this blog site for performance on https://gtmetrix.com/ and it was getting poor results:

• Grade C; Performance 65%; Structure 85%

This is not good. Almost two seconds for the first content to be visible. So I did a bit of googling and found out about NitroPack https://nitropack.io/ which is supposed to sort out performance issues etc.

Signed up for a free account and let it do its thing on my blog. The change was dramatic:

Yup. Every metric that matters is in the green. That’ll do.

After much back’n’forth with FastHosts and the issues with the various levels of PHP support within GRAV I’ve opted to go back to WordPress as my CMS. This will take a while to re-build all the old entries but I was never a prolific blogger anyway.

Update: It actually took only about three hours to build the site and re-create all the blog posts from the GRAV backup. Whilst there is a WP to Grav tool there is no Grav to WP. It all had to be done manually.

After three years with my iPhone X I decided to upgrade. I’m still paying £15 for unlimited data so I still planned to buy the phone upfront.

So…why the Mini version? Because having considered all aspects the Pro and Pro Max are really for people who need the photograpy/videograpy capabilites, and the RAW format, that those phones have to offer. You are of course paying a premium for those features. That leaves the 12 or 12 Mini.

Having thoroughly reviewed the phones and what I do with mine on a daily basis, and the convenience of a smaller handset, the iPhone 12 Mini was the choice for me. It was also a lot cheaper than the others (in comparative Apple terms; you can get very decent Android phones for a quarter of the price of any iPhone) even after I’d opted for 128GB of storage.

Yes, like almost everyone else, I bought the blue version.