Astro websites that ship almost no JavaScript

Astro is a web framework built for content-heavy sites: marketing pages, blogs, documentation, editorial publications. It renders everything to static HTML by default and only ships JavaScript for the components you explicitly mark as interactive. If most of your site is content and a handful of widgets, Astro is usually the right call. If your site is mostly application, it isn't.

Our honest rule: Next.js when the site has real application logic, personalisation, or heavy interactive surfaces; Astro when the site is overwhelmingly content with a few interactive islands. Next.js is what we ship week in, week out, and Astro shares its content-first playbook, so the recommendation follows your requirements rather than our preference. We'll tell you which one fits in the first call, and it's often the less expensive answer.

Yes, and that's how we build it. Astro pairs cleanly with Sanity and Contentful: your editors keep a real editorial workflow, and the site rebuilds or revalidates when content changes. Content collections also make on-disk MDX a first-class option for teams who want content in the repo.

An island is a single interactive component, like a search box or a pricing calculator, hydrated on an otherwise static page. Instead of shipping a whole application bundle to render mostly static content, Astro ships JavaScript only for those islands. The result is less code over the wire and Core Web Vitals that hold up under real traffic.

Every page is fully rendered HTML with no client-side rendering gap, which is exactly what search crawlers and answer engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity want to read. Combined with fast load times and structured data baked into the templates, Astro sites are easy to index and easy to cite. That's the same crawlability work behind our AI SEO service.

Yes. An Astro migration follows the same URL-map and 301 playbook as every CMS replatform we run: each legacy URL mapped, rankings carried over, and your content brought along or remodelled as part of the move, whether it currently lives in WordPress, Webflow, or a legacy framework.

Within reason. Islands can be React, Svelte, or Vue components, so carts, search, filtering, and forms are all comfortable territory. When the interactive surface grows into a genuine application, dashboards, logged-in product, complex state, we'll steer you to Next.js instead of stretching Astro past what it's good at.

Either your team or ours. Astro sites are deliberately simple to run: content edits go through the CMS, and the codebase is small enough for one developer to hold in their head. If you'd rather not staff it, our retainer covers upgrades, new sections, and incident response.