Our Stack

The technology behind
every next8.co project.

Next.js, Vercel, and PayloadCMS — the same stack used by TikTok, OpenAI, and the world's fastest digital products. No plugins, no compromises, no lock-in.

Faster than average WordPress

100/100

Lighthouse score, guaranteed

0

Plugin CVEs to patch, ever

76

Vercel edge locations worldwide

Next.js + Vercel · Performance

Milliseconds that
move rankings

Google uses Core Web Vitals as a ranking signal. Next.js is built around server-side rendering, edge delivery, and automatic code splitting — every page loads in under a second, out of the box, deployed at Vercel's 76 edge locations worldwide.

  • Automatic static generation — pages pre-built at deploy time
  • Edge delivery via Vercel's global CDN — 76 locations
  • Automatic image optimisation with next/image
  • Font self-hosting — no Google Fonts latency
  • Zero unused JavaScript shipped to the client
Core Web Vitals · lab data
Next.js
WordPress avg.
First Paint
0.3s
2.1s
Page Load
0.8s
4.8s
Blocking Time
0 ms
620ms
Layout Shift
0.000
0.24
Speed Index
0.4s
3.2s
Score10038

Google search preview

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Next.js · SEO

Ranks higher.
By design.

WordPress SEO depends on plugins configured correctly. Next.js bakes SEO into the architecture — server-side rendering, automatic sitemaps, rich structured data, and perfect Core Web Vitals from day one.

  • Server-side rendering — every page crawlable by default
  • Metadata API — OG tags, Twitter cards, canonical URLs
  • Automatic sitemap.xml + robots.txt generation
  • JSON-LD structured data for rich search snippets
  • No SEO plugin required — and nothing to misconfigure

Next.js · Security

Zero plugin anxiety.
Ever.

WordPress has 58,000+ plugins — each a potential attack vector. The majority of WordPress compromises happen through outdated or poorly maintained plugins. Next.js has no plugin ecosystem to patch.

  • No third-party plugin attack surface
  • CORS, CSP, and XSS protection configured by default
  • Security updates: one npm update, no site-breaking risk
  • Environment secrets handled by Vercel — never in the repo
  • No PHP execution vulnerabilities
Security advisory feed

WordPress ecosystem

58,000+ plugins

CVE-2024-4439

WooCommerce Blocks

5M+ installs

Critical

CVE-2024-2123

Ultimate Member

200K installs

High

CVE-2024-1071

Ultimate Addons

900K installs

Critical

and thousands more in 2024 alone…

Next.js · your project

0 plugin CVEs
No third-party plugin dependencies
Security headers configured at edge
Secrets managed by Vercel environment
PayloadCMS · Admin Panel
Self-hosted
Dashboard
Pages
Blog Posts
Media
Team
Settings

Pages

Home
2h agoPublished
Services
1d agoPublished
About Us
3d agoPublished
Case Studies
NowDraft

Headless

CMS type

Your server

Hosting

€0 / mo

SaaS fee

PayloadCMS · Content

Your content.
Your database.

PayloadCMS is a TypeScript-native, self-hosted headless CMS. Your content lives in your own database — no SaaS subscription, no vendor lock-in, no monthly fee. Edit pages, posts, and media through a clean admin panel, without touching code.

Self-hosted

Runs on your server or any cloud. No third-party subscription required.

TypeScript-native

Type-safe content models, validated at the schema level — no runtime surprises.

Clean admin UI

Non-technical editors can update content without touching a line of code.

No lock-in

Your data in Postgres or MongoDB. Export it, migrate it, own it — always.

Blocks + rich text

Flexible page builder blocks alongside structured fields. Best of both worlds.

REST + GraphQL API

Full API access — integrate with any tool, third-party service, or app.

Side by side

Every metric that matters

Feature
Next.js
WordPress
Page load speed
Core Web Vitals
SEO out of the box
Security by default
Developer velocity
Scaling without limits
Maintenance burden
Content management

Out-of-the-box, without plugins or custom configuration.

In good company

The biggest sites in the world run Next.js

TikTok serves billions of daily sessions. OpenAI scales globally. Hulu streams to millions. They all chose Next.js.

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