Octopress

One of the main advantages of a statically generated blog (like Octopress) over a blogging platform that uses a database (WordPress, Drupal) is performance. My humble blog doesn’t get enough traffic for performance to be a consideration and I thought I wouldn’t be able to discern any improvement. This graph is from Google Webmaster Tools. Can you guess when the blog migration from Drupal to Octopress was done ? Yes - that’s right - the middle of September (17th to be precise). ...

My site has 966 posts and 70 categories. By default, Octopress re-generates the entire site - every single post, all the category pages, the archive pages On my Acer Aspire One (Intel Atom 1.66GHz) netbook, the regeneration takes around 10 minutes. There are a couple of options that can significantly reduce this time and make the write/preview/edit iterative process more tolerable. Firstly, you can use ‘rake isolate’ to move all other posts into a ‘stash’ directory and simply process the newly created post. ...