Should i convert my WP site to HTML?

Desert90

Desert90

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My WP site is much slower then the competitors.
Most have HTML sites in my niche.
So i am thinking to do the same. What do you think? Is it worth?
What will be the price if someone do it?
How difficult it will be if i want to add new posts, products and so on ?
 
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I just made this decision... I made new website (competitor) to my existing website.
I have to say that first, i notice that google indexed the right keywords FAST.

In speed terms, the site is 100% faster than the WordPress one.
In my case, I built this website myself so I don't know to price and if you familiar with HTML this is piece of cake
I have to say that WordPress is so fucked up last updates that pure HTML is not so different from WP lol

Good Luck I recommend this decision!
 
if they are static pages (your competitors) they will be alot times faster. you can send me a pm of their sites and ill take a look what they are running on.

but the main benefit of wordpress is what you call 'content management system' it gives you an easier time to add posts/ pages and themes plus giving you a good UI to work it on. its fairly easy in html if you know what you are doing.
 
if you think html alone is fast you should check out some of the new frameworks out there, they blow pure html away in terms of load speeds. But you can always use the pure boostrap theme for WP and get some nice load speeds on a vps.
 
There are many optimization techniques that you can use to make your WP site work faster - perhaps you should explore those instead?
I'm not really in favor of using non-content management systems for the website, as the CMS provides flexibility in managing the site, and when the site grows, it provides an easier approach to manage a moderate to big site.
If the site is based on pure html coding, then there are many aspects that you need to take care of as well, such as meta tags, structured data, link updates, etc, which all would require time and effort to update.
Thus a WP site allows 1 person to manage the entire site easily in the process.
Maybe just try speed optimization first, before going for the extreme.
 
You can achieve the same speed with WP as well whilst enjoying the awesome features of WP
 
Depends on how frequently do you need to update, how frequently you would need to change design, how much efforts do you put in for seo, if you use it for sem, etc. All this would be too much time consuming in static sites while easy to go with wp.
 
WorkingNow said:
if you think html alone is fast you should check out some of the new frameworks out there, they blow pure html away in terms of load speeds. But you can always use the pure boostrap theme for WP and get some nice load speeds on a vps.
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I am curious, what are some of those?
 
I run a static WordPress site which is incredibly speedy. I currently host it on AWS S3 bucket and CloudFront and has a load speed of 500ms. It also costs me 0.60 cents a month to run since I'm only paying for bandwidth and no CPUs, RAM etc.
If you want to make your own, install XAMPP server on your PC then you can setup a WordPress site via localhost, you then install this plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/) and it will make a copy and convert everything to HTML, then you drag and drop onto your FTP server.
To make any changes you update the localhost version, convert to HTML again and just upload to your server again.
 
Dude, a lots of popular news sites, blogs are based on WP.
If something is making your site slow then that may be your sever and content Size.
You can Gzip your contents, and also can use some Content Cloud Server for better speed.
 
Try hosting GeneratePress on AWS and see your website blow it up.
I'm currently getting around 0.4s on GTMetrix which is quite fast imo

Switching to HTML can be a good option, if, you're not going to create many pages (unless you're happy doing the hardwork)
 
depends of what your original site is :
if its only static you can go with HTML
if its dynamic better stay with WP
i'd suggest verifying your plugins & see if they slow down your site
the wp only script is fast for most of the providers.
 
Thanks for the fast replies!
No my site is not static. Its a small online shop with few paypal buttons.
For caching i run free version of wp fastest cache and cloudflare.
I got some good results on GTmetrix the only issue that i have too many external JS files, is it possible to combine them ?

Edit: I am getting this result on gtmetrix http://prntscr.com/jr9sq3
but i want to fix this 2 issues. do you know how ?
 
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On gtmetrix they can give you advise of the issues try doing so & you'll see results
 
Speed Isn't a comeptition factor, like the one loads faster gets better points. Its more a static factor, if your website loads fast enough, you get the points.

Fast enough is less than 3 seconds. Less than 2 seconds and u r more thank okay... Its easy to achieve these numbers with wordpress.

All u need is a good host (vps) and good theme. If you are speed maniac (I am not) and added CDN, your website will easily load in less than a second
 
In general: WP is slow, not only because its a CMS system or because you put plugins on it, but Wordpress architecture is just slow. Using plugins makes the situation worse.


Desert90 said:
Thanks for the fast replies!
No my site is not static. Its a small online shop with few paypal buttons.
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And this is the most important thing: If your site is just plain HTML with a few PayPal buttons, your site is still static (since the checkout process is handled via Paypal as far as I understood from your post). In this case it would make sense to convert everything to basic HTML pages because of speed + security, maybe with a lightweight php framework, for a simple routing and templating engine, to make things easier.
 
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