I wrote not so basic CRUD application that uses HTML and vanilla javascript. I don't even minify the javascript. That website loads significantly faster than all the other websites I have made.

I use Hugo published to Github Pages for my blog. I've never thought about performance (it's Fast Enough™ when I visit it), but I just checked and it's 100 on pagespeed. The magic of a static HTML blog is you don't have to think about performance. An entire category of problem just disappears.

I’ve been beating giants in SEO with a static site precompiled at deployment time through includes.

I got straight 100s using SvelteKit on https://c3.ventures

We use nextjs at work and I hate it. Why write each view once when you could write it twice?

I'm open to the idea that we're doing it wrong and that there's a correct and pleasant way to write nextjs, but I think with the tools available today, everyone should just profile and optimize their app so they don't need to render it serverside.

What are the best static site generators for blogs these days?

Caching isn't essential if you can come up with the pages fast enough, unless you need a CDN due to factors like distance.

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