Hugo

We chose Hugo to build our new company's site - developermode.com - along with Bulma as the UI framework and ace templates instead of HTML (haml/jade/pug-like syntax). We're using Hugo's asset pipeline to compile the Bulma sass, which makes it easy to customize at build time. The combination of ace templates and sass makes our markup and CSS very lean, and it's truly amazing how fast Hugo builds assets, basically instant for our size. The site is hosted on Netlify.

Earlier this year, I migrated my personal website (dzello.com) from Jekyll to Hugo. My goal with the migration was to make the development environment as pleasant as possible and to make it really easy to add new types of content. For example, I knew I wanted to add a consulting page and some portfolio-style pages to show off talks I had given and projects I had worked on.

I had heard about how fast Hugo was, so I tried it out with my content after using a simple migration tool. The results were impressive - the startup and rebuild times were in milliseconds, making the process of iterating on content or design less cumbersome. Then I started to see how I could use Hugo to create new page types and was very impressed by the flexibility of the content model. It took me a few days to really understand where content should go with Hugo, but then I felt very confident that I could create many different types of pages - even multiple blogs if I wanted - using a consistent syntax and with full control of the layouts and the URLs.

After about 6 months, I've been very happy with the results of the migration. The dev environment is light and fast and I feel at ease adding new pages and sections to the site.

There’s no doubt WordPress is a great CMS, which is very user friendly. When we started the company, our blog wasn’t really our top priority, and it ended up being hosted on a fairly obscure server within our setup, which didn’t really change much until recently when things become harder to manage and make significant updates.

As our marketing team increased, the amount of traffic that found us through our content marketing increased. We found ourselves struggling to maintain our Wordpress install given the amount of theme updates, plugins and security patches needing to be applied. Our biggest driver to find an alternative solution however was just how slow Wordpress is at serving content to the end user. I know there will be die hard fans out there with ways to set things up that mean WordPress sites can load quickly, but we needed something a lot more streamlined.

We could see in our own Real User Monitoring tool that many users were experiencing page load speeds of over five seconds, even longer in worst case scenarios. Hugo is an open source static site generator that has enabled us to reduce load times by over 500% and make our blog far more maintainable across the whole team.

The Raygun marketing site runs on a .NET CMS called N2 but we plan to swap that out with Hugo as well in future.

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We use Hugo to generate all of our secondary sites including documentation, blog and help center. Hugo

We use Hugo to build our documentation website based on Markdown content. Hugo

The Static Content Generator engine, Hugo, is what I use to convert the Markdown content of my site into HTML for serving to the public.

Using Hugo as a backend to generate content for a statically hosted frontend reduces the security risk of hosting a dynamically interactive site. Hugo