@John "We consistently see faster websites (even on WordPress sites coded “correctly” and free of plugin bloat) ".
Facetious advice and statement. Considering your agencies own website isn’t even up to snuff:
WebPageTest (2G / 3G unthrottled = vast majority of the world):
https://webpagetest.org/result/210602_AiDcR8_9a7130b1bf0338d77221155831b4cbf3/
https://webpagetest.org/result/210602_AiDcTA_b2801c0b84e46eebfdfda5b76b1b4bd3/
WebPageTest (4G = fast mobile devices / most popular mobile providers):
https://www.webpagetest.org/result/210602_BiDcEV_b4c829f6a0297743f2d1ba1c8bc4eb20/
WebPageTest (Cable = most business and consumer internet settings):
https://www.webpagetest.org/result/210602_AiDcE3_fc4fdb16e7e29baba38450267a38c438/
WebPageTest (FIOS = tech hubs, bay area, anywhere “techy” and top tier consumer internet packages):
https://www.webpagetest.org/result/210602_BiDcD4_e4f17ca40c4d97a4b721cd43516cf02c/
GTMetrix: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.ascendinbound.com/R5e8tVtj/
Not to mention the poor practices and accessibility problems.
I highly doubt that. There’s a reason the vast majority of “HubSpot” agencies have WordPress websites. Just scroll through the directory. My point wasn’t that wordpress is better it was that hubspot scrapes the bottom of the barrel and is one of the worst CMS’ there is for anyone that cares about their technical assets for the simple reason that it completely lacks being able to do lower level coding and any real amount of optimization / the vast majority of modern web dev practices. Not to mention the problems at the inrastructure level that inherently comes with the platform.. There are better choices than WordPress and HubSpot clearly. It’s not even remotely a competition between the two in everthing from SEO to performance.
“an editing experience that content creators actually enjoy using”.
Yeah… most people can’t even use a text editor properly. And the ones that can think it’s great until they realize HubSpot’s “hot sell” will result in unmanageable problems at scale and performance problems across the board resulting in a website that is borderline unfixable or cost prohibitive to fix as marketers and content editors use the “editing experience” they can “enjoy using”. Meanwhile, they’ve paid thousand a month for such a **bleep**ty deal. Great choice.
*OP: *You should also take any advice on this forum with a large grain of salt consider you’re asking people with large amounts of bias filled with company taglines that exist to proliferate their **bleep**ty marketing business, because “street cred”, being “bronze, …, platinum” and other cheesy sells is the only real thing they have, because they most certainly don’t have any technical skillsets. Marketing agencies != dev shops and web developers especially hubspot / marketing developers != developers and don’t know what they don’t know.