[johnonolan]

Whether you choose to use clientside JS isn't related to any platform. Lots of people conflate this. They build ostensibly a totally empty scaffold site with an SSG and say "look how fast it is" - but the truth is if you built that same site with really any platform in the world, it would be just as fast.

Ghost doesnt require any clientside JS of any kind, it's totally user choice if/when they want to have that. Yesterday I built a Ghost theme with 2.5kb page size, and average pageload of 100ms. Super easy :)

[nindalf]

The speed comparison between my blog on Ghost and my blog on Hugo (an SSG) indicated that it is faster on Hugo. Note that I’m comparing time taken to serve the website, not time taken to generate files.

The same content with the same URLs is ranked higher by Google after the switch, suggesting that Google prefers this.