Ask HN: Is it just me or is every normal Wordpress blog slowish?

3 points by therealmarv 8y ago ↗ HN

Asking myself if I should go the hugo route or Wordpress route for a new blog and multi authors. I've compared several amateur (with amateur I mean many semi pro blogs which are not hosted by a big company) Wordpress blogs and I have the feeling they all feel slowish. I don't know the real reason but it seems like a mixture of bad image management, too big HTML and maybe also Wordpress itself (I thought it is fast with PHP 7 nowadays).

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[dead] Stopenightc776 8y ago ↗

It's mostly bloat from plug-ins, and general bad practice when it comes to maintaining assets.

jordanmoconnor 8y ago ↗

It's not just you - I have always avoided WordPress because of this. I don't have any technical data to back it up, but that's how it feels!

Hugo/Jekyll is my default. Jekyll especially with the Github pages integration.

therealmarv 8y ago ↗

thx, it's strange but there are really many Wordpress blogs which feel like this and they are not really complicated. Many of them are beautiful from content perspective but sluggish when seeing how slow they feel while scrolling and navigating through the blog (reloading times seem really bad). Seems it is easy to make your Wordpress blog feel slow.