Stacks, hosting, headless and e-commerce — battle-tested comparisons for shipping fast, fast sites.
React, Next.js, Astro, Laravel and friends.
Vercel, Cloudflare, OVH — compared.
Sanity, Strapi, Contentful and the API-first web.
Shopify, headless storefronts and integrations.
Core Web Vitals and shipping a fast site.
Git, CI/CD, testing and handoff.
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From picking a stack to nailing Core Web Vitals and choosing where to host, the guides below favour boring, proven decisions over hype — because the site has to still work next year.
For content sites, a static framework like Astro on an edge host is hard to beat. For apps, Next.js. For classic CMS needs, WordPress still wins on ecosystem.
Cloudflare and Vercel cover most modern needs with global edge delivery. Traditional hosts still make sense for full WordPress stacks.
Google’s page-experience metrics — LCP (load), CLS (stability) and INP (responsiveness). They influence rankings and, more importantly, conversions.
Headless gives flexibility and performance at the cost of more engineering. Traditional CMS is faster to launch and easier for non-devs to run.
