The Fastest Blog in the World (2015)
This is a worthy goal for any site you build, not just a blog... that said, it&#x27;s not even that hard to get crazy bloated CMSes like Drupal, Wordpress, etc. as fast (or faster), as long as you set up basic caching (e.g. Nginx, Varnish, CloudFlare, etc.).<p>I have a basic-ish theme, and I use Drupal&#x27;s AdvAgg module to aggregate and minify JS and CSS, as well as a few other tricks to get page loads smaller. Finally, I use Nginx&#x27;s dead-simple proxy cache to make most page loads take &lt; 600 ms (and faster, if you&#x27;re near NYC, where my DO Droplet is located).<p>See, for example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jeffgeerling.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;tips-managing-drupal-8-projects-composer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jeffgeerling.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;tips-managing-drupal-...</a> (~600 ms from STL, MO, USA).<p>Obviously, the more images and other elements (e.g. social embeds, analytics and other junk), the more time spent downloading the page.<p>But, IMO, there&#x27;s no excuse for your personal blog to take more than 1s to render and fully deliver a page, with an exception if you embed videos&#x2F;audio (e.g. podcasters).