Why static HTML is faster
How Tivlo skips the WordPress bootstrap for guests — and what it never freezes.
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Imagine WordPress cooking every plate from scratch when someone opens About. Tivlo plated About last night. Guests get the plate. You still have a kitchen for edits, forms, and the admin.
What this video covers
- Anonymous GET/HEAD → file from disk, then WordPress can exit
- Logged-in editors still see live WordPress
- What stays dynamic: CSS/JS, uploads, forms, admin, REST, AJAX, carts
- Why this helps Time to First Byte and Largest Contentful Paint on HTML documents
Key takeaways
Tivlo does not invent another page-cache plugin stack. It writes HTML ahead of time and serves that file. PHP work for that URL already happened at export time. The next lesson measures the difference in Lighthouse — without promising you a magic 100.
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