#performance
3 posts
Shipping a static site is not "upload the folder": caching, compression, honest 404s
Almost every static-hosting bug lives in response headers. Which files may be cached forever, which may not be cached at all, and why a static site must never use an SPA fallback.
Pushing first-load JS to zero with Astro islands
From "async import" to "hydrate on demand" — what each of the three lazy-loading layers actually solves, with the code that runs on this site.
Full-text search on a static site: index at build time, no backend at runtime
A static site does not need Algolia to have search. Generate the index during the build, run the query entirely in the browser, and pay a few seconds of build time.