FareBookings vs. WordPress
WordPress runs a huge share of the web, and for good reason — it's flexible and it's free at its core. Here's exactly where that flexibility costs you when the site's job is taking real bookings.
| FareBookings | WordPress | |
|---|---|---|
| Speed out of the box | ✓ 90+ mobile / 98 desktop PageSpeed | ✗ 25–65 mobile, typical with plugins |
| Adding a real booking widget | ✓ Built for this — 5-minute install | – Plugin-dependent, adds more plugins to maintain |
| Own your site, can leave | ✓ Vanilla PHP, fully portable | ✓ Self-hosted, exportable — genuinely yours |
| Security / attack surface | ✓ Zero plugins, no client server access | ✗ Every plugin is a door someone else can open |
| Pricing stability | ✓ Fixed annual fee, no surprise hikes | – Core is free, but plugins/themes/hosting add up |
| Ongoing SEO work | ✓ Real person monitoring & optimising (add-on) | – SEO plugins exist — you do the work yourself |
Why the speed gap is real, not marketing
Every extra second of load time is someone closing the tab before your booking widget even appears. A WordPress site at 25–65 PageSpeed is fighting that battle on every single visit — the same traffic you already paid for, quietly leaking away.
Why plugins are the real risk, not a scare tactic
Every WordPress plugin is a door somebody else can walk through. A booking site handling customer details and payments is exactly the kind of target worth locking down — zero plugins means zero of those doors to begin with.
See what a properly built one looks like.
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