43% of websites worldwide are built on WordPress. There’s a good reason why.
When it comes to website development tools, WordPress leads the race by a country mile. There one very good reason why 43% of websites on the entire globe choose it and that is because it takes away all the heavy lifting that comes with conventional website building.
Let’s take it back to the early days of web development.
In the early days, the web development space was dominated by Adobe or custom-built websites using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Once you had built your website, you then had to navigate a complex and clunky server where you would upload your website files. These kind of websites were very hard to manage and it most cases went live and were never updated again.
How does WordPress take away the heavy lifting?
WordPress is loved around the world because it is a culmination of every web developer around the world that has come together to save time with tedious tasks and lets the developer actually focus on designing and building a beautiful website and not how they’re going to connect an SQL database with a Rest API.
Due to WordPress’ popularity, there are now dedicated hosting companies that work almost exclusively with WordPress websites. This gives you an ultra-smooth experience when migrating a site or dealing with complex HTAccess or FTP issues. This also allows for an ultra-fast website because the server is specially optimised for WordPress deployments.
Some of the pitfalls of WordPress
Hacking: Due to WordPress’ popularity, it is a popular target for hackers. The most common attacks are brute force, cross site scripting and phishing tactics. With the right setup and precautions these pitfalls can be avoided.
Manual Updates: A good WordPress website is usually built with multiple plugins from different developers. These plugins should be manually updated to avoid conflicts. This is usually a bi-weekly or monthly job that takes minutes.
Bloated Codebase: WordPress is renowned for bloated code. This is usually to do with having too many plugins on a website. At You and I, we build our websites with the least amount of plugins possible. We usually use around 5 – 10 plugins for simple sites and 10 – 15 for highly complex websites. This is far less than we usually see and many of the WordPress websites we audit have 30 – 50 plugins.
Choosing your plugins and theme
Choosing your theme and plugins can be the difference between and lightning fast website and slow loading site that makes users bounce. We are seasoned users of Elementor and its lightweight theme, Hello Elementor.
Elementor allows us to build industry grade websites that load in second and rank well on Google.
Conclusion
As we can see, there is a reason why 43% of the world’s websites are build on WordPress. It takes away the heavy lifting involved in building a website while allow the builder to focus on building a beautiful website. If you’re looking for help with web design in Bristol or beyond, get in touch with us today.
