From: Ardis Lu <ardisglu@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 04:31:51 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Remove canonical URL header
X-Git-Url: https://git.ardis.lu/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6ae6784ebba99ab2e0ec8d8382b6808f34a4c03e;p=ardislu.dev

Remove canonical URL header

It causes issues with SEO when the search engine's scraper doesn't finish running the JS to update the canonical URL for an article. There are also no alternate URLs so the canonical URL is not useful anyway (the canonical URL was originally intended to de-duplicate the "www." subdomain but "www." already redirects to the root).
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diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index ddd530b..4b7216f 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
   <link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.webmanifest">
   <link rel="search" href="https://ardislu.dev/opensearch.osdx" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="ardislu.dev">
   <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="ardislu.dev" href="/atom.xml">
-  <link rel="canonical" href="https://ardislu.dev/">
   <style>
     @layer fonts, base, print, hljs;
 
diff --git a/script.js b/script.js
index 9a51f6d..7ce2c32 100644
--- a/script.js
+++ b/script.js
@@ -184,7 +184,6 @@ function buildPostComponent(articleContent) {
 function setPageMetadata(values) {
   document.title = values.title;
   document.querySelector('meta[name="description"]').content = values.description;
-  document.querySelector('link[rel="canonical"]').href = `https://ardislu.dev${values.path}`;
   document.querySelector('meta[property="og:title"]').content = values.title;
   document.querySelector('meta[property="og:description"]').content = values.description;
   document.querySelector('meta[property="og:url"]').content = `https://ardislu.dev${values.path}`;