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So I keep telling clients: if we use WP for your low traffic site is like renting an 18-wheeler to move a small box. Yet, I feel like doctors must feel when patients argue 'quoting' something they read on the Internet: suddenly they are the experts now :(

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It depends on your point of view. The server load caused by WP is much larger than most alternatives, yes. But the development(and ops) time required to ship a WP site is much lower than any alternative I know of.

Yet WP does come by default with a lot of the cruft problems mentioned here. Lots of inefficient js and css added over the years.

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