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Most traffic to your siteisn't human.

I migrate small businesses off WordPress, Wix, and Squarespace onto headless architecture — bot-filtered, edge-cached, secured on retainer.

jamesdennis

Webmaster · Migration · Security

The fix

Why headless, not another WordPress host

WordPress, Wix, and Squarespace share the same architectural limits. They compound over time.

The plugin tax

Every plugin is a subscription, a security surface, and a database artefact that stays behind when you uninstall it. The stack grows. The site doesn't get better.

The bot problem

Most traffic on a modern small-business site is automated — AI crawlers, scrapers, vulnerability probes. Page-builders serve it all the same, on the same shared CPU budget.

The throttling wall

When the bots push past the host's threshold, the host pushes back. Throttle notices, upsell emails, or a slower site for the humans who actually showed up.

A better host or higher cost/higher bandwidth hosting plan misses the point — it doesn't solve it.

You don't have to take my word for it. Here's what it looked like on a real site.

Real-world example

KetoBible.net

from bot-target to bulletproof

Site analytics showed thousands of monthly visits. AdSense showed near-zero clicks. The gap was bots — automated traffic that inflated the visit numbers while eating the server resources meant for real readers. On shared hosting, that overload translated into throttling, which then degraded the experience for the humans who did show up.

Migrated to a headless stack — Next.js on Vercel, behind Cloudflare, with Payload CMS and a Postgres database for the content. Bot traffic is now filtered at the edge before it reaches the application. Hosting dropped to roughly the cost of the domain. Throttle notices stopped. Core Web Vitals came out at 100. Same content, same admin workflow, none of the plugin maintenance.

With WordPress
78%
bounce rate
1.2
pages per visit
~30s
session duration
£18/mo
shared hosting plan
95%
origin hits — no edge caching
3
throttle notices (last 90 days)
KetoBible.net on the previous WordPress stack — bot traffic and shared hosting
Before

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Stop Bot Traffic

Most small-business sites now serve more bots than people. The page-builder stack can't tell the difference.

If your analytics show thousands of sessions and almost no conversions, you're not alone — and it's probably not your marketing. On the average small-to-medium site, the majority of traffic is automated: scrapers, AI crawlers, vulnerability probes, and botnets looking for a way in. WordPress, Wix, and Squarespace were not built to distinguish them from real visitors.

I migrate your site onto a headless stack — Next.js on Vercel, behind Cloudflare — where bot traffic is filtered at the edge before it ever reaches your application. KetoBible.net was 95% bot traffic with near-zero ad revenue and a host threatening to throttle it. After migration: problem gone, hosting cost down to roughly the price of the domain, and the site faster than it had ever been.

Key Features:

  • ✓Edge-level bot filtering
  • ✓No plugin attack surface
  • ✓Static-first page delivery
  • ✓Real visitor analytics
  • ✓Cloudflare WAF included
  • ✓Hosting ~domain cost

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