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A blog is as simple as it gets in terms of websites, yet by using modern tools such as React and Bootstrap to build it you are essentially adding an overhead that is several times the size of the actual content. Since page download and rendering times are critical for the success of your blog from both a UX and SEO point of view, this is just unacceptable. Thanks to Hugo and Tailwind CSS you can produce the bare minimum needed for a beautiful site, and maintain it easily.

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By hosting your static site in GitLab Pages you don’t have to worry about managing a web server, but just as “with great power comes great responsibility”, with less responsibility you must also relinquish some control. If you inspect your site’s headers you will find that GitLab’s servers don’t compress your assets, which makes them weigh up to 75% more than necessary! The good news is that you can get that compression without having to touch the server settings.

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