What’s all the fuss about static site generators?

Somewhat late to the party, jamesgreenblue.com is now a static website built using Hugo. Statically generated websites consume less energy as all pages and assets are pre-built – the promise of halving the carbon cost of my blog was a powerful motivator. According to one website carbon calculator, now only 0.01 g of CO2 is produced every time someone visits a page. It’s also lovely to have faster load times, improved security and not have to think about Wordpress updates 😅...

31 Dec 2022 · 1 min · 104 words · James Greenhalgh