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Static Site Generation (SSG)

Building all HTML at deploy time so pages serve from CDN edge with sub-100ms TTFB.

Static Site Generation (SSG) is a build pattern where all HTML pages are generated at deploy time and served from CDN edge nodes, achieving sub-100ms time-to-first-byte (TTFB) globally. SSG excels for content-heavy sites: marketing pages, blogs, documentation, e-commerce product pages with infrequent updates. Modern frameworks (Next.js, Astro, Nuxt) support hybrid models combining SSG with incremental static regeneration (ISR) and dynamic SSR. Benefits include fastest possible Core Web Vitals, lowest hosting cost, highest reliability (CDN-served), and best SEO. Empire325 builds SSG-first architectures with strategic dynamic rendering only where necessary.

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