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Sure, as far as getting up and running cheaply and quickly is concerned, Wordpress is a great choice. But most Wordpress-based personal sites I've come across
by andrewingram 6y ago
Sure, as far as getting up and running cheaply and quickly is concerned, Wordpress is a great choice.
But most Wordpress-based personal sites I've come across are significantly slower than the React-based personal sites i'm aware of. There's a big problem with abusing plugins that haven't been designed with any kind of performance in mind.
- BrianOnHN 6y agoIf it's a blog then use a CDN.
- andrewingram 6y agoThis is as true with React as it is with Wordpress. I can’t speak as to wider trends, but anyone using Gatsby or Next.is and deploying on Netlify or Vercel is going to be getting good caching and use of a CDN by default. My point was that the amount of client-side bloat in a Wordpress personal site seems to be higher than the equivalent React site, and the overall performance seems to be worse.
- cj 6y agoIf you're starting a blog, chances are you're going to care a lot about SEO. Wordpress is a much better starting point from a SEO perspective than a react app built from scratch. Performance is quick if you put it behind a CDN and disable things like comments (which I suppose you also wouldn't have in a react blog, unless you're building a commenting system from the ground up, too)
- andrewingram 6y agoIs that really true? I’m not a big fan of Gatsby, but if someone opts to use that, there are enough popular plugins to make all the key SEO work happen pretty automatically. People building personal sites with React are mostly starting from one of the popular frameworks, these give you pretty sensible defaults for both performance and SEO (for which performance is now a factor).