Lightweight and sustainable Websites

Static Site Generators

• Hugo, written in Go
• Jekyll, written in Ruby
• Pelikan, written in Python

Web Frameworks

• Phoenix, written in Elixir
• Elm, functional language compiling to Javascript

Links

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• Awesome Static Web Site Generators
• Brutalist Web Design by David Bryant Copeland
• How to Build a Low-tech Website? by Low-Tech Magazine
• The Ethics of Web Performance by Tim Kadlec
• Securing Sites Made Them Less Accessible by Eric A. Meyer
• Susty WP, Delivering WordPress in 7 KB by Jack Lenox
• Performance Budget, "I want my site to load in X seconds on a Y connection" by @jonthanfielding
• Front-end performance checklist 2019 by Vitaly Friedman.
• World bandwith map from @mattleibow.
• Get Started With Analyzing Runtime Performance by Kayce Basques.
• Optimize Website Speed With Chrome DevTools by Kayce Basques.
• Optimization in Elm – an interesting look at compiler tool chain driven web performance.
  • Small Assets without the Headache by Evan Czaplicki.