This demo is intentionally lean. The point is not to load WordPress up with page builders and half a dozen utility plugins, but to show how quickly a clean install can move when the stack is sensible.
The site is running on LiteSpeed Web Server, using the free Kadence theme and the LiteSpeed Cache plugin. The content itself is real: pages, posts, media, navigation, and comments are all present so the site behaves like a normal brochure and blog build.
Why this matters
Performance demonstrations only mean something when the site has enough content to exercise the platform. This install uses featured images, multiple page templates, a menu, categories, tags, and a posts index so the response path is representative without being bloated.
Current stack summary
- WordPress 7.0
- Kadence 1.5.1
- LiteSpeed Cache on LiteSpeed Web Server
- PHP 8.2.31
- MariaDB 10.11.18-MariaDB-cll-lve-log
Good baseline for testing. Having real pages and media makes this much more useful than a stock install.