📚 SuttaCentral.Express 
A fast and minimal alternative frontend for SuttaCentral.net
- Includes all sutta, vinaya and abhidhamma texts in their root languages, all English translations, footnotes, parallels, main reference links and flexible text view settings
- Mirrors the URL structure of suttacentral.net. Just switch the
.netfor.express, or use the browser extension from the Chrome or Firefox store - Desktop apps and site archives for offline use are available for download in Github and Codeberg releases
Desktop performance comparison for /dn1/en/sujato via https://pagespeed.web.dev on 22/01/2026:
| Â | SuttaCentral.express | SuttaCentral.net | Performance Gain |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Contentful Paint | 0.4s | 0.6s | 33% faster |
| Largest Contentful Paint | 0.4s | 2.3s | 5.8x faster |
| Total Blocking Time | 20ms | 240ms | 92% reduction |
| Cumulative Layout Shift | 0 | 0.608 | 100% reduction |
- No editions, essays, guides, map, testimonies, dictionaries, subjects, similes, names or terms pages—it’s just the tipitaka, Web 1.0 style
- No translations other than English
- No javascript needed for reading the texts, navigating between them, or adjusting view settings. If you want your view settings to persist, to use the on-site text-to-speech or static search, enable javascript
- Typing
.expressvs.net: +1.231 seconds (38-40 WPM) - Faster page load: −1.9 seconds (using the most user-perceivable metric—Largest Contentful Paint)
- The performance gain so dramatically outweighs the typing cost that you break even before you even finish loading the first page
This project uses the public SuttaCentral APIs at build time to generate a fully static site that displays their data minimally and accessibly. See DEVELOPMENT.md for more info
Donated to the public domain via CC0