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WordPressWordPressWordPress is the world powers a large share of the web because it made publishing accessible: themes, plugins, and a familiar admin let non-developers run websites. For blogs and content-heavy publications, that model still works.
The costs surface when WordPress is used as a marketing-site platform: plugin stacks that conflict and decay, database-driven rendering that needs caching layers to feel fast, constant security updates, and performance ceilings that hurt Core Web VitalsCore Web VitalsCore Web Vitals are a set of specific factors that Google considers important in a webpage.
The modern alternative for marketing sites is static-first architecture (e.g., AstroAstroAstro is a modern web framework for building fast, content-driven websites that ship zero JavaScript by default.): pages pre-rendered to plain HTML, no database to attack or slow down, and hosting measured in dollars rather than maintenance retainers.
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