The perfect crawlable website, as a starting point.
Every page on this site is fully rendered on the server, ships almost no JavaScript, validates against the HTML standard, passes Core Web Vitals, and is equally legible to search engines and AI crawlers. It exists to be copied — the base layer for every site you build.
Latest writing
- Why this page loaded before you blinked
A short tour of the rendering, performance and crawlability decisions baked into this starter — and why they matter for both Google and AI.
- Standards-first, not framework-first
Why the base layer of a website should be valid, semantic HTML and a tiny CSS file — and the framework should get out of the way.