Here is the homepage speed test result of Netlify,

Mostafa044 · Post by **Mostafa044** » Mon Jan 20, 2025 5:17 am

For comparison, here is the result of a speed test for the homepage of Gatsby. This is a popular static website generator that many developers rave about:

a popular static site host recommended by many developers. Note that they have half the number of requests and their page size is 30% of WPBeginner, but still loads slower than our homepage.

Netlify Homepage Pingdom

The homepage speed of Contentful, the headless CMS that “helps businesses deliver better digital experiences,” is not optimized at all. This was the slowest site we tested.

Contentful Homepage Pingdom

I share these statistics not to discredit the other list of italy cell phone number frameworks, but to provide the perspective that not all new things are as shiny as they seem.

WordPress can be as fast as any static website generator with proper hosting infrastructure and optimizations. Additionally, no other platform comes close to the level of flexibility WordPress offers through its large ecosystem of plugins and themes for businesses.

WPBeginner hosting infrastructure
When it comes to website speed, nothing plays a more important role than your web hosting infrastructure.

As many of you already know, I have been a HostGator customer since 2007. I started the WPBeginner blog in 2009 on a small HostGator shared hosting account .