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(Entry was posted by Scott Clark on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 08/15/2019).

Switching to another CMS

I`m considering the migration of our 15 year old AWS-hosted, Cloudflare-enhanced Wordpress site (our bread and butter) to a flat file CMS - in hopes to get rid of bloat. it now is scoring C`s on Pingdom.
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YOUR ANSWERS

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

  • Jeremy S Cowan: It might be that just the theme needs changing rather than the CMS, some themes are a lot more bloated than others
  • Scott Clark: It def could be... but I can`t see any good comparos between WP minimalist themes and FFCMSs out there. The migration would be a lot simpler for sure if it were possible.
  • Jeremy S Cowan: what theme are you currently using ? What’s the URL?
  • Stockbridge Truslow: Just my two cents, but... When I`m trying to get rid of bloat on a WP site, I don`t throw away WP - I throw away the things that are causing the bloat. WP itself isn`t slow. It`s all the whistles and bells and things that go "PING!" which bloat it up.

    As they say, don`t throw out the baby with the bathwater.
  • Doc Sheldon: Stockbridge Truslow agreed Stock - I have yet to work on a WP site that can’t be made to load consistently in 2 secs or less - it just needs a little tweaking
  • Jef Van Gool: I once used simple cms, not sure if it is still around. will not try to convince you of WP, but you can load that fast (under 2 secs) if you set things up correctly
  • Richard Hearne: Assuming site isn`t too dynamic, I`d look at in-memory caching solution like memcached to sit in front of it all. Should actually be faster than a file-based solution all-other-factors kept constant. With the right set-up you can assume the back-end out of the equation entirely.

    NB: this all presumes that the problems you allude to are infrastructure issues and not related to client-side front-end code.
  • Ryan Jones: yeah wordpress itself isn`t the issue. it`s all the plugins and your theme and how it`s set up and hosting, etc.

View original question in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 08/15/2019).