Nikola

fun with static site generators

• Introduction
• Test Environment
  • Hardware
  • Test Data
• Hugo
• Eleventy
• BSSG
• Zola
• Nikola
• Pelican
• Jekyll
• Useful SSG performance resources

Introduction

Static site generators (SSG’s) are often used for blogs. SSG’s typically process Markdown files into static HTML files. The use of static HTML files (rather than dynamically generating the site using a database) offers benefits for performance and security.