@tjoyce Yes it is. Which was then refined over decades along with the PHP “language” to become more “full service”. So, the fact it’s a “blogging platform masquerading as a CMS” isn’t the statement you think it is when it’s still a better choice.
There are clearly many better options than either WordPress or HubSpot. But, again, between the two not a competition. My point was that on WordPress assuming you’re not off-shoring to India for $5/hr you have lower level access and a programming language that provides far more development interoperability and design flexibility which inherently gives you the ability to achieve better performance without being severely limited that most programmers can achieve better performance with. Again: If you’re using **bleep**ty page builders, etc obviously your performance will suffer at least that bloat isn’t platform imposed and impossible to fix as it is on HubSpot along with many other similar comparisons.
Not to mention the vastly superior local development worklows, automation processes possible, etc that you can’t even being to achieve in HubSpot.
I’m hardly a fan of WordPress, actually don’t like it and patiently waiting or better WebAssembly, but anyone pretending this isn’t true is simply wrong.
Technically, anything that doesn’t expose headers such as sending performance ops ahead of time and optimzing server configs is inherently “unperformant”, but that’s far beyond what most people want to manage. JSx, SSGs, blah blah blah in more modern contexts.