# New user experience **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [November 5, 2023, 12:44am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/new-user-experience/1927 "2023-11-05T00:44:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nelly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Nelly](https://zola.discourse.group/u/Nelly)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 12:44am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/new-user-experience/1927/1 "2023-11-05T00:44:06Z")
I stumbled across this tool by accident and I decided to use it for my blog - the low level of dependencies was key and speed of build. I am previously using gatsby and my experience with zola so far is excellent - I got started with the abridged theme and moving my markdown from gatsby was so easy - I needed to change front matter for search but didn’t have to change the content. I need to amend the styling a little but amazed at how well this went so far. I have around 60 pages with images and code and it built in 3 seconds on my machine (WSL - 4 year old dell xps). I’m liking the abridged theme too - this probably made the experience easier for me. I’m happy this is much less complicated than gatsby. Thanks to developers for making my life easier. ---
**Author:** ![keats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@keats](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keats)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/new-user-experience/1927/2 "2023-11-05T16:42:44Z")
TBH 3s for 60 pages seem slow, is it doing some image resize/data loading? I checked out Gatsby when it was released. As soon as I saw I had to use GraphQL, I noped out ---
**Author:** ![Nelly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Nelly](https://zola.discourse.group/u/Nelly)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/new-user-experience/1927/3 "2023-11-05T19:04:50Z")
Yes I have images on most pages - now I’ve processed the build is down to 300ms