optimization - Jekyll compiling seems WAY too slow -

i'm building site jekyll first time. i'm loving far; problem exceedingly long build times. right now, when run jekyll build, takes 30 seconds generate site.

30 seconds might not seem lot, @ moment, the entire site has 1 post, 8 includes, 8 layouts, , 2 small plugins. haven't abused liquid tags knowledge, , if remove plugins, still takes long.

when searching answer, can find people have huge blogs hundreds of posts. since have 1 post, that's not issue - there's else going on here make take long.

here site's github repository: https://github.com/keithpickering/kpd/

my questions follows:

1. what possible reasons jekyll building when doesn't have build?

2. if jekyll inherently slow, there simple way compile css , js separately, leaving jekyll deal markup? right have jekyll ignore "css" , "js" folders, instead having grunt minify, prefix, , compile files automatically. i've never used grunt before have no idea if sort of absurdly hacky solution i'm using.

thanks help!

edit: should've mentioned sooner, i'm on windows 8.1 x64. i'm beginning think jekyll has shaky support windows.

i ran similar problem, luckily found reason , solution:

my jekyll setup wasn't using plugins, no complicated liquid tags, contained 3 sample posts , nothing else. building site still took 6 seconds on average.

only when removed everthing in directory step step found out causing long build times: node_modules folder.

you can exclude node_modules directory jekyll conversion putting following in _config.yml:

exclude: [node_modules] 

or:

exclude:     - node_modules 

more information exclude can found in jekyll documentation.