Build Time Benchmarks: Ranking Today's Static Site Generators by Real-World Delivery Speed
Not all static site generators are created equal when measured against the metrics that actually matter in production. We ran identical content through Next.js, Hugo, Jekyll, Astro, and Eleventy to surface honest numbers on build times, deployment latency, and time-to-first-byte. The results challenge several widely held assumptions about which frameworks truly belong in a speed-first workflow.