My website has been renewed!
The website migration of mikaelahonen.com has completed! Here is the background why I migrated my Wordpress site to Hugo framework that generates static websites.
Hugo vs Wordpress - Performance, price and plugins
I moved my website from Wordpress to Hugo on August 2022.
Backend for Hugo website
Hugo framework generates HTML files that load really fast. It does not have. As a drawback the developer needs to be more creative with some essential functionalities such as site search and sending contact forms.
Image optimization in Hugo
Text content of all my 300+ blog posts is less than 2 MB in size containing the metadata. An image taken with mobile phone can be 5 MB.
Hugo SEO
Yoast SEO is addmitedly a nice plugin in Wordpress. I was thinking a lot how to replace it in Hugo. Quickly I learned that SEO is not magic.
Migration from Wordpress to Hugo
Migrations are in most cases performed poorly. The reason is that companies treat their IT ecosystem as a commodity rather than asset. The portofolio should be maintained and nurtured to keep in good shape.
EmailLabs - EU based service for 9 000 free transactional emails per month
During my website migration it became evident that I would also need a new email service. Previously the email hosting was integrated in the CPanel of my web hotel.
Pirsch - Google Analytics alternative for static website
Setting up anayltics tracking for a web page is simple. Just copy couple of lines of code from the select analytics service and you are good to go.