Switching to another CMS

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

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  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
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  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.
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  Jeremy S Cowan: what theme are you currently using ? What’s the URL?
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  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.
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  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
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  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
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  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.
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  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.