Blazing fast blogs - an arbitrage opportunity?
I recently setup a blog on Gatsby and got this firecracking perfect Lighthouse score (and its a PWA). SO here is what I am thinking.
Most blogs are slow and bloated wordpress sites let alone a PWA. Would simply converting them to a static fast Gatsby PWA lead to an immediate SEO bump? It seems to be an untapped arbitrage opportunity.
You can obviously start a blog and see the results but what if you just purchased an old established domain from flippa which is most probably on wordpress and simply ported it over?
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I've looked into building sites on Jekyll, Cloudcannon, Hugo, ProcessWire etc. in the past. I had many WP Sites hacked in the past so I approached it from a security focus.
Fast, non-WordPress sites are attractive to some, but Wordpress is so popular with a massive amount of plugins and theme developers. There are a lot of benefits to widespread use?
Could you easily create a membership site with affiliate program on Gatsby? Could you easily add Shopify stores? Are there a large selection of professionally designed themes? Do you have an alternative to Yoast SEO?
If those issues were solved, I'd be interested.
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That is why we built https://versoly.com/
Our blogs score really well and we plan on speeding them up even more.
It allows developers to focus on product.
I see so many IHs working on the blog design instead of writing actual content.
There is also https://sitesauce.app/ that converts WP sites to static.
I have seen a person on IHs try to give away free gatsby sites and he struggled.
Hi Bilal,
I'm knew to Indie Hackers and I want to contribute to this space and you have been my first post that I respond to.
I want to offer some thoughts to consider. I hope you find them helpful.
How important is it to customers to have their blogs load beyond average page speed?
Converting a site from a CMS to static one is far from simple unless we're talking about a single owner blog site.
Also, using a full blown CMS such as Wordpress offers great benefits that could outweigh the benefits of the static sites for certain organizations.
I'm not an expert on SEO but there are many aspects of SEO beyond the lighthouse metrics. So the lighthouse metrics
@momoqu8 This is a good point. I am looking at it more from my own perspective where I take a site and optimize it and even then I am using a headless CMS (Netlify) but Wordpress def has advantages and is convenient.
@m1guelpf actually nailed this with Site Sauce where he focused on an effortless conversion between Wordpress to static sites. You get the wordpress CMS functionality and the speed!