Why I Stopped Using WordPress and Switched Everything to Next.js

I used WordPress for years. Built probably 30+ sites with it. Starter themes, page builders, custom themes, the whole thing. Then about two years ago I switched everything to Next.js and I have not looked back. This is not a "WordPress is bad" post. WordPress is fine for a lot of use cases. But for what I do now at Impeccify, Next.js is just better. Here is why. Speed difference is not small, it is massive My WordPress sites loaded in 2-4 seconds on a good day. With caching plugins, CDN, image optimization, and all the usual tricks, maybe 1.5 seconds. Our Next.js sites load in under 1 second. Some of our static pages load in 300-400 milliseconds. No plugins needed. No caching configuration. It just works because the pages are pre-built at compile time. This matters because Google uses page speed as a ranking factor. And users leave slow sites. No more plugin problems WordPress plugins are both the best and worst thing about the platform. Need a feature? There is a plugin. But every plu