robreact.com was relaunched over the weekend. There's a completely new visual design, some slightly adjusted architecture and a whole bunch of technical improvements.

Here are some things to keep in mind…

• With my CloudFront instance set in my preferences the site is a ySlow 97. Far and away the highest score I've ever produced. I can't really improve it either, as one of the downgrades is for the Google Analytics objects.

  There is one I can do, and in some ways it would be tempting to implement, if just for the technical challenge. To move my style sheet over to CloudFront, I'd have to manually create plain text and GZipped versions and then manually write the proper headers for the compression negotiation. I'd really understand that process after completing those tasks. The only issue with that is that it would be a drag to update the style sheet for bug fixes and the like.

  I guess I'll just have to live with a 97. Google's 99 can rest easy at the top of the heap.

• I used no JavaScript on the site. 100% straight HTML across the board. Of course, GA is JavaScript, but I didn't write that, so the oddity still stands. A JavaScript nerd launches a site, in 2009, using no custom JavaScript. There was just no need
• There's only minimal custom support for IE6. I only saw a couple of serious issues and serious issues were the only issues I fixed. As I've mentioned before, I'm transitioning to IE7/IE8 only support for my own sites, so robreact.com will hopefully end up being the last site I personally support IE6 on at all (albeit in a limited fashion.)

All in all, I'm really happy with it. I hope you are too.

And no, I wouldn't be offended at all if you pimped the freshly scrubbed site all over the internet. In fact, nothing would please me more.