Post by Oliver Lietz · 2026-07-07
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# Fast websites? Try [Astro](https://astro.build) 🚀

In February 2026, a friend asked me to help with his [small
  website](https://meyerling-text.de).

The 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/).

> [PageSpeed Insights](https://pagespeed.web.dev/) for WordPress (mobile):
>
> ![PageSpeed Insights for WordPress
  (mobile)](/post_images/vAyS8Zu7GudhvikDxk0TwQ/large.avif)

WordPress, 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.

I 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.

> ![GitHub Website Project](/post_images/Po76RrtM8sKcjT2p0utJyQ/large.avif)

The 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.

The content is stored in
  [Markdown](https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/markdown-content/) files and can
  be directly authored on GitHub.

On 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).

> PageSpeed Insights for Astro (mobile):
>
> ![PageSpeed Insights for Astro
  (mobile)](/post_images/NBNZxyP1jv5vzDXwbMnLOA/large.avif)

| | WordPress Mobile | WordPress Desktop | Astro Mobile | Astro Desktop |
| -------------- | ---------------: | ----------------: | -----------: |
  ------------: |
| Performance | 40 | 72 | 100 | 100 |
| Accessibility | 88 | 91 | 95 | 92 |
| Best Practices | 96 | 100 | 96 | 100 |
| SEO | 92 | 92 | 100 | 100 |

Static Site Generation allows fast and secure content websites of any scale with
  inexpensive hosting.

Astro 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.

I'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.

Tags: Astro, web, html, css, typescript

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IMAGES
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* PageSpeed Insights for Astro (mobile)
  https://vutuv.de/post_images/NBNZxyP1jv5vzDXwbMnLOA/feed.avif
* PageSpeed Insights for WordPress (mobile)
  https://vutuv.de/post_images/vAyS8Zu7GudhvikDxk0TwQ/feed.avif
* GitHub Website Project
  https://vutuv.de/post_images/Po76RrtM8sKcjT2p0utJyQ/feed.avif

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