I don't think your problem is WordPress. As far as I can tell, you have very little content on your WordPress site (seems like three articles). I don't mean this as a knock on your site, just saying that it's very unlikely that WordPress is the problem here, probably more to do with how it's setup and configured. Some of the largest content websites out there (for example Washington Post) use WordPress.
It's worth understanding why it's slow before trying to solve the problem. One immediate problem I see is that there are a huge number of JS and CSS files on the WordPress site, but the static page is far simpler.
You could either switch to a simpler theme that looks more like your static page, or use a WP plugin like this one to combine and minify your external files.
Yeah, to add on to this, a quick comparison of your two sites in DevTools reveals that your WordPress site makes 49 requests totaling 402 kb most of which are over http/1. On your new site, only 12 requests are made totaling 232 requests all of which over http/2.
Great job on making your site better, but as mentioned above some huge sites (Washington Post, NY Times, CNN, Facebook) all use WordPress
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I don't think your problem is WordPress. As far as I can tell, you have very little content on your WordPress site (seems like three articles). I don't mean this as a knock on your site, just saying that it's very unlikely that WordPress is the problem here, probably more to do with how it's setup and configured. Some of the largest content websites out there (for example Washington Post) use WordPress.
It's worth understanding why it's slow before trying to solve the problem. One immediate problem I see is that there are a huge number of JS and CSS files on the WordPress site, but the static page is far simpler.
You could either switch to a simpler theme that looks more like your static page, or use a WP plugin like this one to combine and minify your external files.
Yeah, to add on to this, a quick comparison of your two sites in DevTools reveals that your WordPress site makes 49 requests totaling 402 kb most of which are over http/1. On your new site, only 12 requests are made totaling 232 requests all of which over http/2.
Great job on making your site better, but as mentioned above some huge sites (Washington Post, NY Times, CNN, Facebook) all use WordPress