3. Build times can sometimes take minutes, not seconds [1].
The performance argument in favour of static sites is not as good as people think. Anyone who is comfortable editing a Cloudflare configuration can enable Cloudflare APO to make a WordPress blog just as fast as the fastest static site setup. For other blogging platforms, one can dial up the Cloudflare cache settings to get the same effect.
It’s very difficult to get a Hugo build time above 1 minute, even for huge sites with 1000 posts. Jekyll used to be terrible but is fine since 4.0.0. My site (200 posts) builds in 2.6 seconds.
I played around with a few static site generators a couple years ago and was not very impressed.
The main reservations I recall (based on my experience a couple years ago) are:
Steep learning curve, coding ability required.
Static site ecosystem not very mature—easy to burn hours updating dependencies, resolving version conflicts, or adding fairly basic features that other platforms support out of the box. Boring, mature software is a better choice for most people than the cool new thing.
3. Build times can sometimes take minutes, not seconds [1].The performance argument in favour of static sites is not as good as people think. Anyone who is comfortable editing a Cloudflare configuration can enable Cloudflare APO to make a WordPress blog just as fast as the fastest static site setup. For other blogging platforms, one can dial up the Cloudflare cache settings to get the same effect.
Blot, by contrast, takes 1-5 seconds (with no button clicks required) to publish a new post, or publish edits to existing post.
It’s very difficult to get a Hugo build time above 1 minute, even for huge sites with 1000 posts. Jekyll used to be terrible but is fine since 4.0.0. My site (200 posts) builds in 2.6 seconds.
Ah that’s great to hear. I’ll cross this out in my original comment. Thanks.