# Improving Jekyll build time

DevFeed: [Improving Jekyll build time](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/improving-jekyll-build-time-37788.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://carlosbecker.com/posts/jekyll-build-time/>)

Author: Carlos Alexandro Becker

Published: 2017-05-14T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Carlos Becker](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/carlos-becker.md>)

Topics: [Jekyll](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jekyll.md>), [build times](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/build-times.md>), [build performance](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/build-performance.md>), [Cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloudflare.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>)

Tags: [analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analytics.md>), [build](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build.md>), [build-times](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build-times.md>), [cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloudflare.md>), [jekyll](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jekyll.md>)

## AI overview

A practical account of reducing a Jekyll blog's build time by profiling slow operations and removing or changing expensive features. The author discusses HTML compression, CSS inlining, Google Analytics inclusion, syntax highlighting, and Cloudflare optimizations.

## Source excerpt

I've been using Jekyll on my blog since 2012. It is great! But, lately, its slow build times started to bother me.