I Rebuilt My Jekyll Blog With SvelteKit - Incredible Difference!

[@mkvalor]

Great video! Now, one thing you didn't cover (unless I missed it) is whether the old website and the new one were both hosted on the same kind of hardware. This is important, since if the Jekyl site is hosted on an older VPC hosting service while the new Svelte site is hosted on a recent dedicated host, this might explain more of the performance difference than the technology stacks being used. I suspect this isn't a factor, but you didn't mention it, so we must wonder about it.

[@programmingpercy]

Hi mark! I could probably make this clearer, Both solutions are hosted on GitHub pages! Thanks for reaching out

[@JustBCWi]

Read the article (not the video). I'm surprised your Jekyll was so slow since it's static. I scored 99 mobile on Hugo, which also creates static. The output of Jekyll and Hugo should be the same. Since you're using that as a metric, I would rather have seen you tune that on Jekyll before comparing platforms on that metric.

[@programmingpercy]

Hey Ben! I tried optimizing and fixing the Jekyll application but I had a really hard time with it, it was always some dependency issue or old plugin that no longer worked. I am not a frontend first developer and it was just too much blod sweat and tears for me to actually successfully tune the Jekyll application. I belive it sluggishness was related a bad implementation and alot of JavaScript related stuff, the template was fetching many third party dependencies which could have been baked into the static resources I suppose. Im not claiming that it would be impossible to make an awesome Jekyll application, as you say it's also static so should be able to reach the same performance. It's just that for me the learning threshold was so big and hard that I never got Anywhere. With Sveltekit, everything was really simple and I didn't have to have any knowledge about what to optimize, it just kinda solved everything for me.

[@Andrew-qc8jh]

svelte is so easy that when seeing the update for a button on svelte, it made me lol. O man react got it wrong

[@programmingpercy]

Yeah, I can't imagine going back, Svelte is easy and powerful, just a winner for me right now