"I'm honestly impressed by how light and fast it stays, even when building something a bit more interactive than a standard blog. I recently used it to build a small calculator tool. My main goal was to see how lean I could keep the final build. By using 11ty, I managed to keep the footprint tiny and the loading times near-instant, which is a huge contrast to some of the heavier JS-heavy frameworks I've used before."
"It's refreshing to see such high Lighthouse scores without having to fight against a mountain of default bloat. For those of you using 11ty, what's your experience been like with performance? Do you have any favorite "low-footprint" tips for adding small bits of interactivity to a static site without sacrificing that 11ty speed? Would love to hear how others are pushing the limits of SSGs for these kinds of micro-tools!"
11ty was used to build a small calculator tool with an explicit goal of minimizing final build size and maximizing loading speed. The final build maintained a tiny footprint and delivered near-instant loading times, demonstrating a clear performance advantage over heavier, JavaScript-heavy frameworks. High Lighthouse scores were achieved without contending with extensive default bloat. The example shows that modest interactivity can be added to static sites while preserving speed. Requests experiences and concrete, low-footprint techniques for introducing interactivity on 11ty sites and examples of pushing static site generators toward micro-tools.
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