Tag: hugo

Hugo performance optimizations

To have a silky smooth start you’ll need any code that affects layout to be included in the first render. Ideally you should fit all HTML and CSS needed by first render within 14KB (search for TCP slow start to dig deeper). Size of images needs to be predetermined so that rendering them won’t affect layout. There shouldn’t be any JS that affect layout either. User first/Content first The reason users come to your site is to consume your content (read your posts, buy your product or whatever).

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Switching blog engine to Hugo

Will this blog be entirely meta? a blog about a blog? Who knows? :) A collection of notes and thoughts from switching from Gatsby to Hugo, why I did it and a bit of comparison. Why? The fact that Gatsby included tons of javascript for pretty much no functionality bothered me and I wanted to try something else. Hugo seemed like a good choice. It’s popular, supposedly really fast and seemed to do what I wanted it to and not much else, meaning it should be simple.

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