Astro websites that load fast and rank

Astro is an open-source web framework for content-driven websites. It renders pages to HTML at build time or on the server and ships no client-side JavaScript unless a component needs it. For marketing sites, blogs and docs, that means light pages, good Core Web Vitals and markup you fully control.

Astro for content-heavy marketing sites, blogs and docs, where most pages are the same for every visitor. Next.js when the site shares components with a React product, has logged-in areas, or needs a lot of per-user, dynamic pages. We build both, and we’ll recommend one after looking at your site and team.

Yes, with a CMS. We usually pair Astro with Sanity: editors work in Sanity Studio, which can run on your own domain, and publishing updates the site. Storyblok, Contentful, or git-based Keystatic and TinaCMS are good options too. Without a CMS, content is Markdown in the repo, which suits developers and AI agents.

Sanity stores content as structured data your site queries with GROQ, so the same content can feed pages, the product and emails. The official @sanity/astro integration gives the site a configured client, can embed Sanity Studio on a route of your site, and supports Visual Editing on a server-rendered preview, so editors can click from the page to the field behind it.

On a fully static site, yes: a Sanity webhook calls your host’s deploy hook, and the site rebuilds, which usually takes a minute or two. If you need changes live instantly, we render the pages that change often on the server, or use Astro’s live content collections. We pick per page, so the rest stays static.

Through the files. Claude Code or Cursor reads your components, tokens and content, makes the change and runs the build. It arrives as a pull request with a preview link, and you merge it or ask for changes. Astro also has an official docs MCP server, so agents work from current Astro docs instead of old training data.

Yes. Pages are plain HTML that search engines and AI crawlers read without running JavaScript, and you control every title, canonical, redirect, sitemap entry and piece of structured data. Speed helps, but content and structure still do most of the work, and we plan both.

Yes. We moved our own site from Framer to Astro. We inventory every URL, export the CMS content, rebuild the pages on a design system, and keep the URLs or map each change with a 301. The migration pages explain each path in detail.

Usually Cloudflare, Netlify or Vercel. A mostly static Astro site costs nothing or little per month to host for most marketing sites, and there are no per-seat editor fees for the site itself. A CMS like Sanity has its own plans, depending on your team and usage.

We think so. Astro is open source under the MIT license, and since January 2026 its core team works at Cloudflare, which has said Astro stays open source and works with any host. Your site is a standard repository, so it isn’t tied to us or to one platform.