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The fastest CMS
What's the fastest CMS in your opinion? For a static website.
Bit too much work with plain HTML (will need to be edited in the future) also would really want to avoid WP in this case.
Sure, there are optimizations, caches and CDNs, but perhaps some sort of CMS gem exists that I've missed.
Thanks.
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Hexo or Jekyll.
You write Markdown in Visual Studio Code and they compile to static HTML.
Compilation happens either locally or on GitHub Actions.
You don't need to write static HTML directly.
You can edit the Markdown and recompile.
HTMLy
Datenstrom Yellow
Flatpress
All php based which may or may not be someone’s preferred choice
It all depends, do you want to be a hipster?
If you want speed, try flat file CMS. Something like Grav.
If it's really static you cache it early in the chain.
I use this, very cheap and fast - https://getpublii.com/docs/configure-cloudflare-pages-with-publii.html
A static site generator will create HTML files. I don't think which one makes a big difference.
I use Hugo and I am very happy with it.
Thanks- I always get confused between PageKit and Publii- was about to mention that Publii has not been updated for a while now. Which is certainly not the case.
https://github.com/GetPublii/Publii
Pagekit, for ref:
https://github.com/pagekit/pagekit
Hugo/Jekyll.
Gatsby
Visual Studio Code. Just write and save to HTML.
Also https://html-online.com/editor for fast and easy, just edit and replace the text you want.
Grav CMS
Bludit
Design everything in WP and generate static HTML.
http://get-simple.info/
Anything that generates static HTML. They'll all be the same. You can even use WordPress if you also use a plugin like WP Super Cache and configure the web server to directly serve cached HTML straight from disk, bypassing PHP. It'll be the same performance as a static site.
Bludit / Bashblog are two I've been fond about.
Not all static site generators will produce output that will have the same speed. It will depend on whether it is barebones and you add what you need or you load a full JS framework just to render a simple site.
Are there any SSGs that integrate nicely with Ansible out of the box?
Not that I’m aware of, but the steps should be fairly easy for any SSG out there:
simple: make wp site, turn into it with static. upload it to cloudflare pages.
fastest speed directly from edge.
I was thinking more of the generator being on the web server itself and calling it via an Ansible module. But, yeah, either way it wouldn't add a lot. Just a nice to have.
no fastest cms, when you've configured, any cms is the fastest.
He said the fastest SSG and you come with Ruby and JavaScript. You're banned from using IPv6 for one week.
I've never used it at scale, but one of Hugo's strengths is its insane speed in generation, especially with very large sites. If you are looking for the fastest SSG, the answer is Hugo. Just like Golang is very fast in devouring source code to compile, so Hugo is very fast in blasting out web pages.
Random google from 2018: "We ran two tests to measure build times with Hugo and Jekyll. The basic test used the default installation of Jekyll and Hugo to build sites with 10 posts,100 posts, 1,000 posts and 10,000 posts. The advanced test built those same sites but included common plugins and template code in order to create a similar set of features between the two Static Site Generators. For each build, Hugo proved to be between 23 and 63 times faster than Jekyll!"
Another random blog entry from 2020 ran a comparison and concluded that Hugo is 50-70x faster than Jekyll.
Based on these two datapoints, I unscientifically conclude that four years ago Hugo was already vastly faster than the competition and in the meantime it's gained further ground.
YMMV but it won't.
Grav React
Visual Studio Code
Also, there are many caching plugins for WordPress, which in conjunction with Nginx, allow you to achieve good speed results