Bryan L. Robinson

Climbing the 11ty Performance leaderboard with Cloudinary, critical CSS and more

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https://bryanlrobinson.com/blog/climbing-the-11ty-performance-leaderboard/

This is an excellent writeup of the different paths Bryan went to optimize the performance of his site built with Eleventy. I will definitely look for inspiration in this code.

With so many cool things happening the JAMstack recently, I think we should always keep an eye on performance. Many frameworks can sacrifice speed for developer convenience. The ideas behind hydration and rehydration can sometimes negatively impact this as well. First render is quick, but first useful render can be tediously slow.

I love that 11ty has decided to prominently call out sites that are doing well in this regard. It shows their goal of performant, HTML-driven sites.

  1. Note from 20 June 2024

    About https://techhub.social/@cloudcannon/112604279395366912

    Alex […] shares how using CloudCannon for client sites boosts performance and efficiency 🚀

    I love #CloudCannon's efficiency. 👍

    But with an SSG, #WebPerf depends on the way you build pages. Good SSGs — as #Eleventy — don't force anything so performance is really just the result of developer's work.

    The CMS should have no impact. 🤷‍♂️