A Jekyll 3.0.0 starting point with Turbolinks and Animate.css.
Why? Because performance is about perception. Jekyll is already fast, but adding the perceived speed of turbolinks and animate.css is a remarkable improvement.
bundle exec jekyll serve --baseurl ''
cd your-site
bundle exec jekyll serve --baseurl ''
You may need to tweak head.html if your javascript 404s. Jekyll's site tells you how to do this and why it's happening.