http://beacon-demo.starry-s.moe/tags/performance/Recent content in Performance on Beacon DemoHugoen-USWed, 08 Jul 2026 10:15:00 +0800http://beacon-demo.starry-s.moe/posts/building-a-fast-static-site/Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:15:00 +0800http://beacon-demo.starry-s.moe/posts/building-a-fast-static-site/<p>Static sites are fast by default, but it is surprisingly easy to give that speed away. Here are the habits I keep coming back to.</p> <h2 id="keep-the-asset-pipeline-lean">Keep the asset pipeline lean</h2> <p>Hugo Pipes can bundle, minify, and fingerprint CSS and JS without any external tooling. One concatenated, fingerprinted stylesheet beats a dozen render-blocking requests every time.</p> <ul> <li>Bundle scripts into a single file</li> <li>Minify and fingerprint in production only</li> <li>Inline the tiny critical bits (like the theme-flash guard) directly in <code>&lt;head&gt;</code></li> </ul> <h2 id="measure-the-real-thing">Measure the real thing</h2> <p>Build time and page weight are both worth watching:</p>