Laravel 13, Blade, Tailwind 4, Vite 8.
Astro, Hugo, Eleventy and Next are all good at building fast marketing sites. This is not a comparison, and there is no version of this article where one of them loses. Every one of those tools carries real advantages and real costs, and choosing between them is a question of context.
This is our context, and these are our numbers.
4,323 bytes. Gzipped JavaScript on a public page, including navigation, the theme switcher and audience measurement. Four modules, hand written, no framework.
The entry number, and where it comes from
