Astro Image Optimization in 2026: AVIF, WebP, Lazy
The current best-practice Astro image pipeline: AVIF first with WebP fallback, responsive srcset, lazy-load defaults, and the LCP image carve-out most tutorials miss.
🚀 Astro & Static Content Sites
Build a static content site in Astro that scales to 1,000+ articles and ranks.
Astro is currently the strongest framework for a content site — static builds, native MDX, SEO-friendly, cheap to host. This hub walks from Content Collections to sitemap to category and tag pages, end-to-end.
In-depth articles in this hub
Astro Incremental Content Update Without Full Rebuild
How to ship a single article update on an Astro site without rebuilding 3,000 pages: islands, on-demand rendering, content-layer hashing, and a hybrid workflow that scales.
When Astro Is the Right Choice (And When It Isn't)
A practical 2026 guide to when Astro is the best framework for your site and when you should reach for Next.js, Hugo, or plain HTML instead.
Building Category and Tag Pages in Astro
How to build category and tag index pages in Astro that scale, rank, and avoid the thin-page trap, using Content Collections for the data layer.
Astro Content Collections — A 30-Minute Getting-Started
A focused walkthrough of Astro Content Collections: schemas, type safety, frontmatter, and the workflow that makes a 500-article site maintainable.
Deploying an Astro Site to Firebase Hosting
Step-by-step on deploying a static Astro site to Firebase Hosting, with the configuration that avoids the common pitfalls in 2026.
Astro SEO Basics: Title, Meta, Canonical, Hreflang
The minimum-viable SEO setup for an Astro site — what every page must have, why, and the exact patterns that hold up at 500 articles.
Setting Up Sitemap.xml Properly in Astro
How to generate, validate, and submit a sitemap.xml in Astro — including hreflang pairs, exclusion rules, and what Google actually does with it.
Astro vs Next.js: How to Choose for a Content Site
A side-by-side comparison of Astro and Next.js for content sites in 2026, with concrete decision criteria and the real long-term cost of each.
Building a Markdown / MDX Content Site That Scales
Structure a Markdown / MDX content site to scale from 50 to 1000 articles. Includes Content Collections schema, component map, and link-check script.