The week the page got faster
A drama note about what happens when a site gives up unnecessary runtime weight.
The drama was not loud. It was a page that loaded too slowly, a bundle that did too much, and a reader who had already moved on.
The turning point
Once the pages were generated ahead of time, the whole story changed. No runtime rendering, no database call, no waiting for a server to think.
The quiet win
Static output made caching obvious. The same HTML could travel through the edge and reach readers with less friction.
What stayed
The site still has room for interaction later. It just refuses to make every reader pay for features they are not using.
