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13 Steps to a Faster Jekyll Website

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May 05, 2016
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13 Steps to a Faster Jekyll Website

How to speed up your Jekyll (or GitHub pages) website in 13 easy steps.

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Ronan Berder

May 05, 2016

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Transcript

  1. How click-baity is that? 13 steps to a faster Jekyll

    website

  2. Ronan Berder Chief Janitor Officer at Wiredcraft Who’s that guy?

  3. Loads quickly (PageSpeed Insights) Generates quickly (--profile) Fast you said?

  4. None

  5. Optimize your pictures For example with ImageOptim Step 1

  6. None

  7. Have an asset pipeline Grunt, Gulp.js… take your pick Step

    2
  8. None

  9. CSS inlined in the header JS at the end of

    the body Step 3
  10. None

  11. Avoid blocking CSS/JS Good example is @font-face Step 4

  12. None

  13. Use a CDN CloudFlare is a (free) no-brainer Step 5

  14. None

  15. Enable gzip & browser caching Out-of-the box with CloudFlare Step

    6

  16. Enable SSL With CloudFlare (& force redirect) Step 7

  17. Use something Algolia For search, listings & related posts Step

    8
  18. None

  19. Avoid Jekyll plugins e.g. Highlight.js instead of Rouge Step 9

  20. None

  21. Avoid loops & use variables e.g. the author loop on

    each post Step 10
  22. None

  23. Generate only the latest post Just using --limit_posts 1 Step

    11
  24. None

  25. Ignore stuff with “_” or _config.yml Great to handle media

    separately Step 12
  26. None

  27. Incremental builds (--incremental) For Jekyll 3 (on GitHub pages) Step

    13
  28. None

  29. Still not happy? Maybe check out Hugo.

  30. Slides & notes: wiredcraft. com/blog/make-jekyll-fast