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Static Site Generators in Production
Field guides for engineering teams shipping static sites at scale: choose an architecture, harden every Core Web Vital, secure and monitor what you ship, and run deployments you can reverse in under a minute.
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New to the site? These cornerstone guides are the fastest way in.
Latest Additions
The newest areas on the site, added as the guides deepened.
Security Headers and Hardening for Static Sites
CSP without unsafe-inline, HSTS rolled out safely, dependency audits and keyless deploy credentials.
Read the guide →Monitoring Static Sites in Production
Uptime checks, broken-link crawls, edge 404 logs and real-user vitals once the site is live.
Read the guide →Performance Budgets and Lighthouse CI
Budgets that fail the build, stable Lighthouse runs in CI, and lab data checked against the field.
Read the guide →Resource Hints and Navigation Speed
Preconnect, prefetch, speculation rules and view transitions that make the next page feel instant.
Read the guide →Docs Frameworks: Docusaurus, Starlight and VitePress
When a ready-made documentation framework beats building your own, and how the three compare.
Read the guide →Search for Static Sites
Build-time indexes with Pagefind, hosted search, and what each approach costs in bytes and upkeep.
Read the guide →Serverless Functions for Static Sites
Forms, authentication and API proxies with a few edge functions, while every page stays static.
Read the guide →Self-Hosting Static Sites on S3, Nginx and Caddy
Clean URLs, redirects, caching and zero-downtime deploys when you run the servers yourself.
Read the guide →Explore the Core Topics
Every guide sits under one of these three areas. Pick a topic to dig in.
Choosing the Right Static Site Generator for Production
Framework selection strategy, docs frameworks, search, migration paths, and decision matrices for long-term maintainability.
- Astro vs Eleventy for Documentation Sites
- Docs Frameworks: Docusaurus, Starlight and VitePress
- Hugo Build Times for Large Repositories
- Jekyll Plugin Ecosystem
- Migrating Between Static Site Generators
- Next.js Static Export for Content Sites
- Search for Static Sites
- SSG Framework Selection Matrix
Performance Optimization & Core Web Vitals for SSGs
Delivery architecture, hydration strategy, layout stability, navigation speed, and performance budgets enforced in CI.
- CDN Caching Rules for SSGs
- Cumulative Layout Shift Fixes for Static Sites
- Font Loading Strategies for Static Sites
- Image Optimization Pipelines in Astro
- JavaScript Hydration & Partial Rendering
- Largest Contentful Paint Optimization for Static Sites
- Performance Budgets and Lighthouse CI
- Resource Hints and Navigation Speed
- Third-Party Script Performance on Static Sites
Production-Ready Deployment & CI/CD Workflows
Deployment automation, security headers, monitoring, serverless functions, and rollback practices for resilient operations.
- Cloudflare Pages Edge Caching Setup
- Content Workflows for Documentation Teams
- GitHub Actions for Automated SSG Builds
- Incremental Builds and Build Caching for SSGs
- Monitoring Static Sites in Production
- Netlify vs Vercel Deployment Strategies
- Preview Environments for Pull Requests
- Rollbacks and Deploy Safety for Static Sites
- Security Headers and Hardening for Static Sites
- Self-Hosting Static Sites on S3, Nginx and Caddy
- Serverless Functions for Static Sites