Smashing Magazine website won’t be running on WordPress anymore; in fact, it won’t have a back end at all. They are moving to a JAMstack (JavaScript, APIs and Markdown). The new website is powered by Hugo static site generator. Here’s the link to the new design (still in Beta). next.smashingmagazin…

I agree with that observation @stiobhart , it sounds their PR department was also writing along. Those overly positive words from them did prompt me to do a webpagetest (see here ). A start render time of 1,8sec and a load time of 3,5sec is not that good. Their DOM interactive of 800ms is good, but …

[image] Jura: is also something that can be achieved with WordPress (and caching), I personally think. That kind of depends. The big selling point in this case is the CDN part, i.e. serving the static content from a fast CDN close to the user. WordPress caching is static, too, but limited to …

[image] Jura: Those overly positive words from them did prompt me to do a webpagetest (see here). A start render time of 1,8sec and a load time of 3,5sec is not that good. Their DOM interactive of 800ms is good, but that time as well as their 200-300ms time to first byte, is also something that…

Netlify put quite a bit of effort into this project and the fanfare is well deserved, in my opinion. They’ve open-sourced their work for us all to benefit from, including a content editor, commenting system, and commerce tools. I’ve been following and building in static since 2012 and for one am ecs…

Note, in your comparison, @Jura that the new site is nearly twice as heavy as the old site, yet is still slower. Still, a distraction. I’d guess Smashing Mag’s motivation was indeed due in part to make a radical change and help others adopt the technologies formerly know as static site generators.

I got some numbers from Netlify; Around 7500 content pages. TOTAL build/deployment around 2 minutes. Of that TOTAL, the Hugo part was around 13 seconds.

[image] bep: Of that TOTAL, the Hugo part was around 13 seconds. THAT IS AMAZING!

7500 pages in 13 seconds? Wow! Hugo is a beast!

This is great news for the Hugo community! Haven’t read the Netlify article, but would be nice to hear how they manage the content administration with 7500 pages (phew). Especially so since they’re only the second (?) commercial blog build on Hugo after swedish Piraja (yes, this is an unshameful plu…

What happened to this? It didn’t seem to come to pass, and there have been no commits for months. Did they run into problems?

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The GitHub repo looks stale, but I suspect they are working on an internal repo.

According to this recent YouTube they are still working on it and plan to release this year:

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