A Quick Take on Headless and Performance
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mandclu
Fri, 02/10/2023 - 07:09
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There are a number of great reasons to consider a headless architecture for a web project. I sometimes hear site speed listed as a primary motivation. Is a headless website guaranteed to be faster? Let's explore this idea. There are certainly many examples of fast headless websites online today. But there are, in fact, a lot of slow headless websites around as well. And according to Google and their Core Web Vitals reporting, a website using Drupal as its CMS is almost twice as likely to have a good score as one based on popular headless CMS options like Contentful or ContentStack. Is the above an apples to comparison? Of course not. But we can say with certainty that any site using a headless-only CMS has a headless front end, and that many of those identified as using Drupal do not. SiteMore
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