Why Hugo?

Building a personal site is hard, especially if you’re a developer trying to showcase their portfolio. There is no one size fits all solution and a variety of factors need to be weighed. Ultimately to come to a decision, you will need to be able to evaluate your priorities.

My Goals with this Site

• SEO (Search Engine Optimization): Optimizing your site such that it is prioritized by search engines is a whole industry in and of itself, however, designing for crawl time/budget should be an important factor for any website seeking to attract more users. Therefore, I was compelled toward a static website solution over the usual dynamic Single Page Applications (SPAs) that I am used to with libaries like React. SPAs take longer to load and are much harder to optimize for SEO wise, especially if it contains many routes.
• Fast Loading Times: Statically generated sites equal an exceptional fast load times on all devices, even network performance is poor.