Astro is fast!

I built this portfolio site with Astro. I wanted something fast, content-focused, and super friendly to Markdown, so once I read about it, I was pretty much sold.

One of the things I liked is that Astro doesn’t send JavaScript to the browser by default. That means you mostly ship static HTML, which helps keep things fast. A lot of the work also happens at build time instead of in the browser, so the site feels very light.

This is a pretty simple static site and doesn’t really have dynamic content, but even compared to similar sites built with other frameworks, it still performs really well.

Tip: You can check your own site’s performance with web.dev. It’s a nice tool for seeing how your site performs and for getting ideas on what to improve.

And here is a comparison of Astro with some popular frameworks across different performance metrics: HTTP Archive