Speed, security, AI compatibility, cost — every factor compared without agency bias for the Indian business context.
This question comes up in every QX137 discovery call: "Should I get a React website or WordPress?" Since we build exclusively in React, you'd expect us to be biased. So we've committed to complete honesty: here's a point-by-point comparison of every factor that matters for an Indian business website in 2025.
WordPress generates pages server-side on every request — fetching database content, assembling PHP templates, and loading a chain of plugins. Even on good hosting, this process takes 2–6 seconds. React uses client-side rendering with pre-built component trees, delivering the visible page in 300–800ms. This isn't an optimisation difference — it's an architectural difference. React is structurally faster. Period.
On Google Lighthouse, QX137 React sites consistently score 92–100. Well-optimised WordPress sites typically score 60–75. Under-optimised WordPress sites — the majority — score 35–55. This speed difference translates directly to Core Web Vitals rankings.
WordPress runs 43% of all websites and accounts for 90% of all hacked websites. The attack surface is enormous: admin login portals, database connections, plugin vulnerabilities, PHP exploits. Wordfence reports over 86,000 WordPress attacks per minute globally.
React has no CMS login portal to attack, no database to inject into, no plugins with undisclosed vulnerabilities. The attack surface is a fraction of WordPress's. For Indian businesses handling customer data, this isn't a minor consideration — it's a fundamental business risk difference.
AI search engines — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity — prefer clean, semantic HTML with structured data. React code is hand-crafted, clean, and precisely structured. WordPress plugin-generated code is often bloated, semantically inconsistent, and contradictory. QX137's complete JSON-LD schema implementation — consistent and correct — gives React websites a structural advantage in AI citation quality that WordPress plugins can't reliably replicate.
WordPress requires weekly plugin updates, periodic security patches, PHP version management, and occasional conflict resolution between plugins. In India, WordPress maintenance retainers typically cost ₹2,000–₹8,000 per month. React sites have no plugins to update, no CMS to patch, no security software to maintain. After delivery, the only ongoing cost is content updates.
Complete honesty demands acknowledgement of WordPress's genuine strengths. If your team needs to self-publish blog content daily without any technical knowledge, WordPress's backend editor is significantly more user-friendly than editing React code. For complex WooCommerce e-commerce with inventory management, WordPress's ecosystem is more comprehensive. For websites needing 50+ content types managed by non-technical staff, the CMS advantage is real.
For a 10-page professional business website — which represents the vast majority of Indian business needs — React is the better choice on every metric that drives SEO performance, AI visibility, user experience, and long-term security.
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