u/xxmaskx

I’ve been paying more attention to how static sites feel on slower mobile connections, not just how they score on Lighthouse. Even with prebuilt html, large images, web fonts, and a few third-party scripts can still make the page feel slow. I’ve started being stricter with image sizes, font weights, and loading anything non-essential later.

For static sites, what do you usually optimize first when trying to make the site feel fast on weaker connections?

I’ve been working with a few static sites lately and honestly, I’m starting to wonder if we overcomplicate hosting them. If a site is basically just HTML, CSS, JS, images, etc what’s the actual advantage of using a more feature-heavy hosting setup? For a simple portfolio, landing page, documentation site, or small business site, wouldn’t basic static hosting + a CDN be enough for most cases? Curious what everyone here thinks.