From WordPress to a modern website: when it is worth switching
Slow pages, plugins that break, updates you are afraid to click? When it is worth leaving WordPress, what you gain and how to keep your Google rankings.
WordPress built half the internet, and for many businesses it was the right choice when they started. Over the years, though, most WordPress sites collect plugins, themes that no longer get updates and code nobody remembers the reason for. The result is a site that is slow, breaks with every update and costs time and money just to keep running.
How do you know it is time? If your home page takes more than three seconds to open on a phone, if you are afraid to click update, if you pay every year for plugins you do not understand, or if the site has been hacked even once, the problem will not be fixed by one more plugin.
A modern website is built differently. Pages are generated in advance and served from a global network, so they open almost instantly. There is no database exposed to the internet and no plugins to break, which means far fewer points of attack. Hosting often costs very little or nothing at all.
The big question is Google. A migration is done right when we keep the same addresses wherever possible and add a 301 redirect from every old link to the new one. Titles, descriptions, images and structured data move across, so Google sees the same content on a faster site. Speed is one of the factors that count in rankings.
For an e-shop the logic is the same. Products, categories and customers move across, and you manage everything from a simple admin panel made for the way you work, without the dozens of WooCommerce settings you never use.
Before you decide, start with a check: how fast the site is today, which pages bring visits from Google and what needs to move. I do this in the WordPress check-up package, and afterwards you know exactly whether the switch is worth it and what it will cost.