I have successfully addressed all critical issues identified in the redundancy analysis for the blog project. The most significant improvement was cleaning up the massive log files that were consuming 164MB of storage – the build.log (28MB) and deploy.log (136MB) have been cleared down to minimal placeholder files of 44 bytes each.

To prevent this issue from recurring, I updated the .gitignore file to use a comprehensive *.log pattern instead of the previous specific deploy.log entry, ensuring all future log files will be excluded from version control.

Upon investigation, the reported orphaned pagination files (index2.html through index103.html) were found to not actually exist – the build system is correctly generating index.html for the first page and page2.html, page3.html, etc., for subsequent pages as intended.

These changes provide immediate benefits including substantial storage savings, cleaner repository structure, improved deployment efficiency, and prevention of future log file bloat in the codebase.