• WordPress avg response time - 2844 ms
• Static avg response time - 16 ms

• No database
• No parsing, server only serves data
• Easier server setup

5 clients every second for 30 seconds

WordPress without Cache - 2844 ms avg response

WordPress with Cache - 345 ms avg response

Static WordPress - 16 ms avg response

50 clients every second for 30 seconds

WordPress without Cache - error
100% error rate

WordPress with Cache - 600 ms avg response
29,6% error rate

Static WordPress - 12 ms avg response

• WordPress can be on a separate server
• WordPress can even be available only on localhost

• Simpler hosting costs less
• Sometimes it's free - GitHub Pages or Netlify
• Typical WordPress hosting starts at 12 - 20 € / month / site

• There are less things that can break
• Using a CDN can make your website equaly fast all over the world and protected from DDoS
• The site will just work

• User profiles
• Dynamic content
• Social media sites

• Forms - Kwes, Basin
• Search - Algolia
• Comments - Reply Box, Disqus
• ECommerce - Snipcar, Commercelayer

• You always have to remember about it
• It takes some extra time

• Buildes take more time when there is a lot of posts
• It will increase with every new post

• ✔️ It's cheap
• ✔️ Full control over the whole proccess
• ✔️/ ❌ Many plugins are compatible out of the box

• ✔️ It’s cheap
• ✔️ We can use other programming languages
• ❌ More problematic in terms of plugins compatibility

• ❌ It's more expensive
• ❌ Less control over the proccess
• ✔️ It just works, without any setup
• ✔️ Some additional plugin integations out of the box

Go for it when:

• you don't have any login or registration feature
• it's a blog, business page or portfolio
• you aren't focused on adding a new post every few seconds

• One server with SSH access
• WordPress is under a subdomain
• Static is under top level domain
• I'm using CloudFlare

• Excluding URLs I don't need (/category for example)
• Excluding wp-content/uploads folder

• ~200 pages takes about 1-2 minutes

• Reach me out on Twitter - @palmiak_fp
• Send me an email - maciek.palmowski@buddy.works