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One solution is to just send all the linked pages on first load (all the markdown content, so when transitioning they only load images, or of seen before get them "from cache").
Typically this behaviour, page prefetch, is built into a modern browser. Thus, writing it yourself is probably not a great improvement.
Hate to be 'that guy', but it would be nice if you served this over HTTPS, given that you are accepting credit card details.
surge.sh
If you want to roll your own, I have a Docker image that pulls Markdown out of git, runs Hugo over it and pushes the site to an S3 bucket. Also works with Bitbucket pipelines so you can get a site rebuild with a simple git push: https://github.com/rabidgremlin/hugo-s3
I have a very small server running Apache, with mod_markdown installed. .md files are rendered as HTML by Apache, and there's a CSS file to tweak if I feel like it.
Reminds me of Aaron Swartz's Jottit application: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/sweatsmall
While Jottit is great and representative of yet another cool thing Aaron contributed to the world, it occasionally goes down for days, or even weeks at a time.
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I've been working on a Jekyll-like system for fun over the past couple of weeks. I've tried to make it as painless to install as possible, but it does require Python 3. https://github.com/fredley/mirage Was planning on doing a Show HN if/when I'd made it a bit more robust. It makes sites that look like this: http://mirage.mamota.net
Do you cater only to blogs or to static website in general? I tried both Hugo and pelican but neither really supported general purpose websites. For example, https://hearthstonejson.com uses Jekyll and I haven't been able to move it.
I have many informational websites like http://www.krister.ee and sometimes I register domains on a whim when I get a really good idea for a website. I decided to create a simple tool to help manage these microsites and in addition to buying a domain I can immediately fill it with demo-content using markdown. Before I get into feature creep (hero image, forms, analytics) I'd like to work on reaching an audience. Prob…
Reminds me of Aaron Swartz's Jottit application: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/sweatsmall
Making a modern, responsive, mobile-aware website seems like a huge learning curve right now. It would be great if there was a tool that let you use simple markdown, took a few options, and generated beautiful static pages like e.g. Medium with a minimum of hassles. I guess a lot of people use WordPress with themes, or Weebly, SquareSpace but it still seems pretty complicated.
My major critique is that the generated sites are needlessly javascript powered. Right when I saw the "Loading" I thought oh no how many assets are going to be downloaded... for just markdown content. I guess I'm just an old web 1.0 guy but I just don't see and understand why everything must be done in a super dynamic way. Hell sometimes I like clicking on a link and watching the browser do the loading as it is confi…
Aw...this makes me so sad. I need to fix my brain. Every time I see "static sites", I think "oh great, no dynamic server or client code, just static HTML/CSS for fast loading". If I'm going to have to undergo a "compile step" for my website, it's going to do something worthwhile, darn it.