EmDash vs WordPress: Which CMS Delivers the Best Speed for African Websites?

The 3-Second Problem Killing Kenyan Websites Picture this: a mama mboga in Nakuru is trying to order supplies from a wholesale website on her Tecno Spark. She's on Safaricom 3G — maybe 4 Mbps on a good day. The WordPress site takes 4.7 seconds to load. She bounces. Sale lost. This isn't hypothetical. Google's own research confirms that 53% of mobile users abandon sites that take longer than 3 seconds to load. And here in Kenya, where internet penetration sits at roughly 85% — almost entirely mobile — those seconds are costing businesses real money. WordPress powers about 43% of all websites globally . It's the incumbent. The default. But its architecture wasn't built for bandwidth-constrained, mobile-first markets like ours. EmDash, on the other hand, runs on Cloudflare Workers at the edge — with data centers right here in Nairobi and Mombasa. So which is the best CMS for website speed in Africa? I've spent 14 years building websites for Kenyan businesses, and this is the cms compariso