Freelance Astro developer for content-led sites. Near-zero JavaScript by default, excellent Core Web Vitals, and any headless CMS behind it. From $24/hour.
I build sites with Astro from $24 per hour - static HTML by default, interactive islands only where they earn their place, and a headless CMS behind the content. It is the right choice when most of the page is content people read.
Astro is the correct default for marketing sites, documentation, blogs and portfolios, and the wrong one for applications. Knowing which you have is most of the decision.
This site is Astro. It has a preloader, scroll animation, a physics-based logo strip and a slider, and it still ships as static files.
Astro renders to HTML at build time and ships no JavaScript unless asked. Interactive pieces become islands that hydrate individually while the rest of the page stays static.
The practical effect is that one interactive component costs you one interactive component, rather than a framework runtime on every page that has none.
Content present in the HTML needs no rendering step to be indexed. Core Web Vitals improve mainly by not shipping JavaScript you never needed, and those are a confirmed ranking signal measured from real Chrome users.
Astro does not do your on-page SEO for you. It removes the technical obstacles, which is a different and more reliable benefit.
Content can come from Payload, Strapi, Sanity, Contentful or even WordPress as a headless source, fetched at build time and baked into the output.
That also means the deployed site has no runtime dependency on the CMS - if the CMS is down, the site is unaffected, because it is files.
For most business sites, yes. If the site is mostly pages people read with a few interactive elements, Astro is lighter and ranks better for less effort. If there is a real application behind a login, Next.js is the better fit.
Yes. Astro renders React, and the island model hydrates individual components while the rest stays static HTML. That is usually the right answer for a content site with one or two genuinely interactive pieces.
From $24 per hour or $900 per week. A content-led marketing site with a CMS typically runs two to four weeks depending on page count and how much of the content and design already exists.
Yes - content lives in a headless CMS with a normal editing interface. The one difference from WordPress is that publishing triggers a rebuild, which takes a minute or two and happens automatically.
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