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title: Static Site Generators tagline: Top Open-Source Static Site Generators description: Top Open-Source Static Site Generators date: 2016-10-27 19:16:49 +0100

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// Place an excerpt at the most top position // —————————————————————————– People sometimes ask if static sites make sense for anything beyond a one-pager. This leaderboard highlights the top open source projects, in many different languages, that make static sites not only viable, but an attractive option for creating sophisticated websites!

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Static Site Generators

The typical CMS driven website works by building each page on-demand, fetching content from a database and running it through a template engine. This means each page is assembled from templates and content on each request to the server.

For most sites this is completely unnecessary overhead and only adds complexity, performance problems and security issues. After all, by far the most websites only change when the content authors or their design team makes changes.