For anyone interested I created a privacy focussed theme for Hugo, with no third party scripts or assets:

https://github.com/lucaspiller/hugo-privacy-cactus-theme

I wanted a minimalist theme that's fast to load, but a lot of commonly cited examples are too extreme or look too dated for my liking. I wanted the same results, but something a bit more up to date and with code highlighting. You can see the end result on my blog (total network transfer 78kB):

http://www.stackednotion.com/blog/2016/07/09/setting-up-a-ne...