# Changelog for January 2nd, 2026

Major marketing site performance overhaul, Lighthouse HTTP fix, and blog SEO improvements.

## Improvements

* Updated the **Lighthouse checker** to correctly audit **HTTP sites** when requested. This avoids automatic upgrades to HTTPS caused by modern browsers and ensures more accurate results.
* Significantly improved **marketing site performance**:

  * Converted over **100 SVGs** to sprites for faster rendering.
  * Reduced overall **JavaScript bundle size**.
  * Removed unused libraries from marketing pages, including Chart.js.
  * Authentication-related scripts now load **only** on login and registration pages.
  * Replaced Axios with the browser’s native `fetch()` API.
  * Removed the Gill Sans webfont, reducing unnecessary font loading.
  * Applied multiple frontend optimizations to improve load speed and responsiveness.
* Improved **menu performance** by only initializing interactive components when needed, reducing page-load overhead.
* Enhanced **blog performance and SEO**:

  * Fixed Open Graph metadata for blog posts.
  * Improved image loading with preloading and prefetching.
  * Added missing author, timestamp, and alt-text metadata.
  * Ensured SEO tags are consistently passed to the main blog views.
* Improved user seeding logic so new Oh Dear users always land on the **Oh Dear team** after login, instead of a reseller team.

## Fixes

* Fixed Lighthouse checks incorrectly failing when disabled metrics or categories exceeded thresholds.
* Fixed a metadata issue where the monitor name was used instead of the site name in blog Open Graph data.