A slow WordPress site is almost never slow for the reason people assume. Here is a real before-and-after on a 700-post blog — every number measured with Lighthouse, every change explained.
A WordPress site rarely gets hacked in one dramatic moment. It gets a small file uploaded somewhere it shouldn’t be, and that file quietly hands over everything. Here is exactly what that looks like, and how I find it.
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