13 Steps to a Faster Jekyll Website | Wiredcraft
I started using Jekyll (or rather GitHub pages) about 6 years ago after years of disappointment with the CMS space (I’m looking at you, Drupal). Getting back to building actual HTML pages and not fighting some “framework” was refreshing, but what made me and my team fall in love with it was its speed. Over the past 6 years, we went on to build a ton with it: simple landing pages, developer documentations, Open Source communities, blogs like this very website, and Web apps (for example the subnational data browser for the World Bank). And along the way, we figured out a thing or two when it comes to performance. I shared these discoveries at JekyllConf 2016 and I thought I’d offer some more details about what it is that we do to build fast Jekyll websites.