[willholloway]

I have created a skeleton project I use for new sites made of Pure CSS with a grunt workflow.

I run jinja2 templates through Grunt and it:

* Optimizes all images - this saves megabytes upon megabytes

* minfies css, html and javascript

* the static files are served via nginx.

Pure is responsive and comes in at just 3.8kb minified and gzipped.

The result is pretty close the fastest blog in the world, and it's super simple to get started with. You can put a CDN in front of it for even better performance if you like.