Since I'm on vacation for two and a half weeks I've had some time to do some bug hunting on the code of the antman.info website. I've made plenty of changes in the PHP, HTML, JS and CSS code and some other changes as well. These changes include:

• removed AddThis follow tools and replaced them with simpler links
• removed all the obsolete Font Awesome references in the code since I had stopped using it already in February when I made some website layout improvements
• fixed some image links that are powered by fancyBox

That's about it for now and after this news post I update the site map and it will show 666 pages on this site. HELL YEAH!

I just deactivated the Twitter account for the antman.info website. I came to the conclusion that I really don't need two separate accounts since the only tweets for that second accound were links to these news posts and lately I've been tweeting those with my personal Twitter account. If you are using Twitter, you can follow me:

Follow @AManCalledAnt

Upgraded two scripts on the server:

• Upgraded Bootstrap from version 4.0.0 to version 4.1.0
  • Bootstrap is an open source toolkit for developing with HTML, CSS, and JS. It is mainly used to power the menu system on this site.
• Upgraded fancyBox from version 3.2.10 to version 3.3.5
  • fancyBox is a jQuery lightbox script for displaying images, videos and more.

Added three new photos to two different categories:

• antman with Jordan Rudess
• two new photos in the Finland in Winter category: #1 and #2

I just deactivated my Facebook account and removed the Facebook Analytics script from my website. I just don't find this particular social media site that useful anymore. Even when using Social Fixer to fix many of Facebook's annoyances it has become way too spammy for my taste. I really can't say if this is goodbye and good riddance or if I'll be back, time will tell.

Added some legal documents to the site because of the upcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). These documents include the following:

• Terms and Conditions
• Privacy policy
• Cookies policy

Also added a cookie consent due to the EU legislation on cookies.

Upgraded two scripts on the server and installed one new script:

• Upgraded Matomo analytics script from version 3.3.0 to version 3.4.0
  • Read the release notes here.
• Upgraded Serendipity used to power the news section from version 2.1.1 to version 2.1.2
  • Read the release notes here.
• Installed Facebook Analytics script.

Upgraded lightGallery from version 1.6.6 to version 1.6.8

lightGallery is a customizable, modular, responsive, lightbox gallery plugin for jQuery that I'm using to power the photo galleries.

I've been making some backend code changes mostly in the PHP code of the site and some more search engine optimizations since I already started doing those about two weeks ago. The SEO changes include mostly Structured Data in JSON-LD format. Other changes include that I put the site map available for the visitors and ended up coding my own plugin for Serendipity that powers the News of the site.

Decided to rename the info page as about page. This was simply because the domain name already has info in it and it was a bit confusing.

Made some search engine optimization changes in the code of the site. This doesn't affect the visitors of the site since all of the changes were made in the backend of the site. Just updated all of the meta descriptions to be a little more descriptive of the pages and updated the robots.txt as well as the XML site map of the site. There is also a HTML site map which I probably will incorporate to the site some day.

I spent last weekend doing some bug hunting and then fixing and updating a few things on the website. The changes include the following (in no particular order):

• Apache HTTP Server now forces visitors to the secure https:// instead of plain http://
• All references to http:// in the code have been replaced with https://
• Fixed a minor bug in the Jokes section print option that occurred after the jokes script upgrade
• Fixed all the links to Splash Damage forums and Crssfire.nu in the Wolf / Maps page
• Copyright link in the footer has been encrypted with PHP and JavaScript (thanks to one individual in  Romania who stole my CVAR explanations page and replaced the copyright link as their own)
• All the Crossfire.nu Themes have been updated
• Minified the JavaScript run on the site
• Made some changes to the News section's meta tags that are powered by Facebook platform, Twitter platform, Google+ Platform and Schema.org microdata
• Submitted a new sitemap and made some minor changes in the Google search console

Today antman.info website got more secure as it was SSL certified and now uses https:// instead of http://

I had been thinking about getting a certificate for some time and now it's reality. Just wanted to do this to offer more security for the visitors as the usage of SSL technology ensures that all data transmitted between the web server and browser remains encrypted.

Since I upgraded Bootstrap from version 3.3.7 to version 4.0.0 about two weeks ago there have been minor issues with the menu system because I just did a dirty upload and replace upgrade. Now those issues have been fixed and the whole menu system has been rebuilt from scratch. All of these things have been done to improve the menu system:

• Upgraded SmartMenus from version 1.0.1 to version 1.1.0
• Installed Popper.js
• Rewrote the whole CSS code

Exactly a year ago I started using Matomo (back then it was Piwik) as the analytics software instead of Google Analytics. Here are some statistics for the past 365 days:

• 15,384 visits from 121 countries
• 1 min 38s average visit duration
• 73% visits have bounced (left the website after one page)
• 1.9 actions (page views, downloads, outlinks and internal site searches) per visit
• 0.3s average generation time
• 24,890 pageviews, 20,311 unique pageviews
• 3,372 downloads, 2,926 unique downloads
• 302 outlinks, 263 unique outlinks
• 99 max actions in one visit