Moving blog from Drupal to static html

I recently moved my blog from Drupal to static html pages and the results are amazing. I am primarily a Drupal developer, and have been for about 10 years, so many years ago when I decided to add a blog to my personal site it was natural to choose Drupal. Drupal was easy to get a blog up and running quite easy and worked well, little consideration was given to actual site speed.Fast forward about.....