Best Blogging platform

Best Blogging platform

Sat, Oct 3, 2020

Hugo (Details)

Most reviews will say Hugo is really fast, but they don’t have many timing numbers to back that up.

Pros

Cons

Jekyll (Details)

Hexo (Details)

Sculpin (Details)

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Cons:

sudo apt-get install composer php-xml

Sapper

This is the only general purpose static generator that I would put up with the other blog specific generators.

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Cons:

Timing Comparison

Framework 50 pages 100 pages 500 pages 1k pages 5k pages 10k pages
Hugo .6s .4s 2.4s 3.8s 1m7s 4m7s
Jekyll 3.8s 5.9s 24.7s 48s 4m13s 8m31s
Hexo 30.2s 30.4s 43.3s 1m5s crash crash
Sculpin 0.5s .7s 2.8s 5.7s 1m18s 153m
Sapper 2.1s 2.3s 3.2s 4.3s 12.5s 26.2s

Also tested…

Gatsby

Next.js

Nuxt

Eleventy

Scully

Nikola

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