Benefits of switching from Wordpress to Publii

Introduction

I recently switched the blog's from Wordpress to Publii, a desktop based static site generator that produces static HTML files for this website. The successful migration has brought the following benefits:

Increase in the pages peed of this website.

Touziboke.com has successfully transitioned to Publii, eliminating the need for a dynamic content management system. Publii stores the website's contents as static HTML files, enabling the website to quickly serve the contents to every visitor.

In addition, Publii also generates standards-compliant HTML codes that comply with best practices in SEO and accessibility. The resulting improvement is impressive, as shown by the performance score for this website. Pagespeed Insights reported full scores for this website in terms of performance, accessibility, best practices and search engine optimization.

Less maintenance work for this website.

Wordpress, with all its myriad plugins, is in constant need of maintenance and updates. The switch to Publii, due to its static nature, has greatly reduced the maintenance chores for this website.

Enhanced security for the website.

Wordpress, the most popular CMS, powers more than 43% of the world wide web (as of early May 2024), and is also a popular target for hackers. In fact, over the past few months, Touziboke has frequently been the target of brute force attacks. This occurred on a daily basis, as shown by the frequent warnings that I received from the Loginizer plugin. I saw this as a potential accident, and I had no intention of waiting for the day when the blog fell into the wrong hands.

The transition from a dynamic website to a static HTML website has eliminated the need for a back-end database and server-side processing, thereby greatly reducing the website's attack surface.

Lower carbon footprint and improved digital sustainability

Implementing static HTML files for Toiziboke.com has the additional benefit of reducing the website's carbon intensity, thereby contributing to the long-term digital sustainability of the internet.

According to websitecarbon.com, an online resource that estimates the carbon emissions of websites, the new, improved version of Touziboke.com generates 60% less carbon than the old dynamic version, i.e., 0.02 g/pageview versus 0.05 g/pageview respectively.

Conclusion

In conclusion, I am very satisfied with the many resulting benefits of the transition to a static HTML website, using Publii. I'd like to congratulate the Publii team for their excellent work and contribution to the world of online publishing and wish them continued success in the project.