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How much do you know about headless WordPress?

When someone wishes to create a website, WordPress is the only name that first popup in his mind, the reason is its convenience, free of cost, easy to build, and much easier to maintain. WordPress is something beyond an introduction, even after the emergence of several other CMS and website development platforms, it is still leading the web industry with the most share in powering websites.

When we started web development, our vision was very clear right from the beginning that we will help the companies develop custom websites. Soon we realized that WordPress is the most demanded and ultimate solution to web development that can help businesses and individuals by giving them freedom of creation, maintenance, and enhancement.

Why did we move from traditional WordPress to headless WordPress?

The answer is very simple, we wanted to adopt modern technologies for designing the front end and improve the website performance by providing an excellent user experience with pixel-perfect frontend, blazing fast website speed, enhanced security, improved SEO performance, and highly scalable website structure.

This can be directly related to modern stacks web development like #decoupled approach or #Jamstack. Luckily all this is possible with WordPress being an open-source platform allowing to use of APIs and isolating the frontend by using the latest JavaScript frameworks or static site generators like NextJS.

We did our market research and found some interesting facts about WordPress as headless technology, like

👉 80% out of active websites have been developed using a theme system like that in WordPress, Joomla, Wix Webflow, etc.
👉 The average load time for the websites is almost 6 sec to 16 sec for desktop and mobile browsers respectively.

So we realized that #headless WordPress is a great solution for improving the website performance by integrating backend only WordPress with #NextJS,
Here are some of the performance benefits;

✅ 10x increase in website speed
✅ Less than 3 sec website load time
✅ 3x increase in conversion rates
✅ Highly scalable
✅ Enhanced SEO
✅ Cost efficient by hosting via CDN
✅ ZERO security threats
✅ Easier to manage using #Gutenberg
✅ Pixel Perfect Design using #Tailwind CSS
✅ Build with the mobile-first approach

If you are also struggling with the website performance, then feel free to reach out to Fastvert | Headless WordPress Development Company.

PS: Performance is the key to business growth.

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