Over Christmas we moved our main site from Wordpress to Hugo & Netlify. The main benefits for us moving to Hugo were Security. We were always getting emails about various Wordpress plugins. As our site was essentially static, this was an additional maintenance task. Site-speed. Although Wordpress has lots of clever plugins for optimising site-speed (which then leads to the situation above); Wordpress is just “big”. Raw cost. By this I mean web-site fees.