SSG
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Static Site Generator — a tool that pre-builds all pages at build time, producing plain HTML files that can be served from a CDN with no server required. Jekyll, Hugo, Next.js (export mode), Astro. The fastest websites are the ones that don't compute anything.
In plain English: A tool that pre-builds all your website's pages ahead of time as plain HTML files, so they load extremely fast — no server-side processing needed when someone visits.