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  "description": "# Fast websites? Try [Astro](https://astro.build) 🚀",
  "title": "Oliver Lietz · 2026-07-07",
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  "body_markdown": "# Fast websites? Try [Astro](https://astro.build) 🚀\n\nIn February 2026, a friend asked me to help with his [small website](https://meyerling-text.de).\n\nThe website was using an (un)[managed WordPress instance at IONOS](https://www.ionos.de/hosting/wordpress-hosting), and he was charged for [PHP Extended Support](https://www.ionos.de/hilfe/hosting/problemloesungen-fuer-php/ionos-php-extended-support/).\n\n> [PageSpeed Insights](https://pagespeed.web.dev/) for WordPress (mobile):\n>\n> ![PageSpeed Insights for WordPress (mobile)](/post_images/vAyS8Zu7GudhvikDxk0TwQ/large.avif)\n\nWordPress, TYPO3 and other content management systems can become slow, insecure and expensive quite quickly. And very often, full-blown content management systems with user management and workflows are not needed.\n\nI set up a project on [GitHub](https://github.com), and we started working on a rewrite from scratch using Astro with clean, modern HTML and CSS.\n\n> ![GitHub Website Project](/post_images/Po76RrtM8sKcjT2p0utJyQ/large.avif)\n\nThe Astro website is using [content collections](https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/content-collections/) for pages and content blocks and in addition few lines of custom [TypeScript](https://www.typescriptlang.org) code for the navigation.\n\nThe content is stored in [Markdown](https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/markdown-content/) files and can be directly authored on GitHub.\n\nOn every change (commit) a build ([Static Site Generation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_site_generator)) is started, and on success the website gets published with [IONOS Deploy Now](https://www.ionos.de/hosting/deploy-now).\n\n> PageSpeed Insights for Astro (mobile):\n>\n> ![PageSpeed Insights for Astro (mobile)](/post_images/NBNZxyP1jv5vzDXwbMnLOA/large.avif)\n\n|          | WordPress Mobile | WordPress Desktop | Astro Mobile | Astro Desktop |\n| -------------- | ---------------: | ----------------: | -----------: | ------------: |\n| Performance    |               40 |                72 |          100 |           100 |\n| Accessibility  |               88 |                91 |           95 |            92 |\n| Best Practices |               96 |               100 |           96 |           100 |\n| SEO            |               92 |                92 |          100 |           100 |\n\nStatic Site Generation allows fast and secure content websites of any scale with inexpensive hosting.\n\nAstro got my attention in 2021 (before the [1.0 release](https://astro.build/blog/astro-1/)) due to its support for [Island Architecture](https://jasonformat.com/islands-architecture/), and I'm a happy user since then. [Astro 7.0](https://astro.build/blog/astro-7/) was released some days ago with many improvements and new features.\n\nI'm a former [Magnolia CMS](https://www.magnolia-cms.com) Committer, [Apache Sling](https://sling.apache.org/) PMC member and Architect for [Adobe Experience Manager](https://business.adobe.com/products/experience-manager/). I do IT for fun and profit."
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