Here’s a comparison for you because I just did the same. Old site. - Built with Gatsby, hosted on Netlify. - Lots of client-side JS, but page loads are insta

Here’s a comparison for you because I just did the same. Old site. - Built with Gatsby, hosted on Netlify. - Lots of client-side JS, but page loads are instantaneous because everything is prefetched and a page load is a client-side JS event not a server request. - https://v4-johnnydecimal.netlify.app/ https://v4-johnnydecimal.netlify.app/ New site. - Built with Astro, hosted on Netlify. - Zero client-side JS, but each page load is a good ol’ fashioned HTTP request to the server. - Pages are small. After caching my web fonts, each page is single-digit kilobytes. This is deliberate, I worked hard to achieve this. - It doesn’t feel as fast. Because it isn’t. Because it can’t possibly be. - https://johnnydecimal.com https://johnnydecimal.com