Strattic Eliminates Static Hosting - We'll Buy Out Your Contract

It’s official. Strattic shut down on January 1, 2025.

Built by an ambitious group of developers, and eventually acquired by Elementor (which candidly led to the platform’s death), the solution pioneered Static WordPress at scale.

But like the phoenix, Headless Hostman rises to pick up where they left off.

We Bought Out Strattic Contracts

When we first received the news in 2024, we learned that Elementor didn’t offer Strattic customers a suitable Static WordPress replacement.

And going from Static WordPress to regular Elementor hosting is like trying to get an oil change for an electric car.

So, we offered by to buy out Strattic contracts and Onboarded a lot of Sites

If you weren’t one of them, and you went somewhere else — whether another Static platform, or traditional hosting — we’d still love to talk.

In 2025 and beyond, former Strattic customers get their first month free on the Headless Hostman

We’re confident you’ll find the Headless Hostman as not just a suitable replacement, but an evolutionary step forward for your Static WordPress experience.

• See what we bring to the table below
• Or book a demo to see it in action
• Our onboarding process is also 100% free

We’re Headless Hostman: a Static WordPress Generator and Hosting Platform

The Headless Hostman:

1. Hosts your WordPress site
2. Equips the tech to convert it Static
3. And hosts the Static website

All under one roof.

WordPress is Meant to Be Flexible and Dynamic

And our entire mission is to make sure what we offer for Static WordPress aligns with those values:

• We support 99.9% of Plugins and Theme Builders out of the box, day one
• Our platform allows you to push by:
  • An individual page or post
  • All of a specific page or post type
  • The entire site
  • Automatically with Post Mapping and Time Triggers
  • Or Scheduled Posts automatically

We’ve also taken it up a notch by offering:

• Native performance boosters
• A robust diagnostics center for SEO and site health
• Advanced security lockdown tools

We Support 99.9% of Plugins and Theme Builders on Static WordPress

The biggest question you might be asking yourself is: “What Plugins and Themes do I need to sacrifice to make this Static WordPress solution work?”

Our answer? No sacrifices needed.

We take your existing WordPress site — as it it is — convert it to Static, and push it to a Static Production environment.

And 99.9% of Plugins and Theme Builders work day one, out of the box.

Here are some standout examples:

• Themes like: Elementor, Beaver Builder, Divi, Breakdance, and WP Bakery
• Form builders like: Gravity Forms, Contact Form 7, Breakdance Forms
• SEO solutions like: Yoast and Rank Math
• 301 redirectors like: Yoast Pro Redirects, Rank Math Redirects, and Redirection
• Language translators like: WPML

As of April 23, 2025 the only major Plugin we don’t support is WooCommerce. But we’re working on that (Woo for Static is quite robust and difficult).

• Suitable replacements for now include our own on-platform integration with Shopify and Surecart.

Call Your Shots – Pick WHAT Goes Live WHEN

Push by Individual Post or Page? Check

Push All of a Post or Page Type? Check

Total Site Push? Check

Smart Triggers? Check

What are smart triggers?

• Basically: [if this happens] then [push this].

How does that play?

• Let’s say your publish a new blog post. Do you then need to push everywhere that blog post shows in page listings? No, just set up the workflow
• Or let’s say you need a dynamic page to auto-sync every Day, Hour, 5 minutes, or 1 minute

Static is Actually Faster, but You Still Need to Appease the Google Page Speed Gods

Static WordPress is actually faster, and users will notice immediately.

• Our Time to First Byte (TTFB) averages below 180ms
• Comparable traditional hosts like WP Engine and Pantheon average above 360ms

But Poorly Optimized HTML will Still Offend Google Page Speed. 

What does Google Page Speed look at? Factors including:

• Deferring render-blocking assets like scripts and stylesheets
• Delaying off-screen assets with lazyloading
• Fast-loading above the fold renderings

Our Performance Suite Addresses All of Those, Without Reliance on Plugins

Why not just use WP Rocket? Well, WP Rocket is a caching Plugin first and performance plugin second. Static doesn’t quite play with that approach.

So we replicated and built our own performance suite to bring you all of those features on Static WordPress.

Tools to Enhance Static WordPress Speed Scores

Generate Critical CSS Above the Fold

Inline the CSS needed to display the top portion of the page immediately. This improves First Contentful Paint and prevents unstyled content flashes.

Defer Stylesheets

Loads stylesheets after the main content, boosting load speed. Must be paired with Critical CSS to avoid layout shifts.

Remove Gutenberg CSS from Frontend

Strips unnecessary Gutenberg styles when not in use, reducing 5–7 extra stylesheets often loaded by default themes.

Lazyload Images and Backgrounds

Defers loading of offscreen images until they’re needed, dramatically improving initial load times.

Preload Above-the-Fold Images

Forces the browser to prioritize key visual assets immediately visible on page load.

Manual Preload for Hidden Critical Assets

If key visuals are buried in stylesheets, you can manually specify them in the WordPress page editor for preload support.

Load Background Images on First Interaction

Delays above-the-fold background images until the user interacts. Prevents layout shifts while maintaining speed.

Convert Background Images to <img>

Transforms CSS background images into HTML image tags. This enables preloading and faster rendering.

Add Image Dimensions

Automatically inserts width and height attributes on images to prevent layout shifts and improve page stability.

Make Scripts Non-Render Blocking

Delays inline and embedded scripts until user interaction. Maintains script order while removing load-time blockers.

Lazyload iFrames

Postpones iframe loading until they’re nearly visible. Ideal for embedded content that slows page load.

Defer Below-the-Fold Content

Uses content-visibility: auto to delay rendering of out-of-view elements until needed.

Minify HTML

Strips out unnecessary whitespace and comments. Small boost to load speed, but excellent for cleaning up bloated themes.

Advanced Diagnostics to Always Monitor Site Health

How often have you been informed by a client or Google Search Console that something bad happened?

Being caught off-guard can be demoralizing, so we make sure it doesn’t happen.

We keep an eye on your Static WordPress site’s total health in a few key areas:

General Health

1. Uptime monitoring
2. Home page uptime

SEO Health

1. Follow/Index meta tags
2. Sitemap presence and formatting
3. Robots.txt presence
4. That you have a 404 page with a proper 404 status
5. X-robots

And Even Script Compatibility

When FireFox released a major update on April 1, 2025, you might’ve noticed your scripts broke on that browser.

We monitor script functionality across the major browsers, and alert you if one is not longer functioning so you can fix it.

Taking After Strattic’s Security Features

Strattic made sure your WordPress site would “spin down” and shut down when not in use. They also made sure you needed to be logged into strattic.com to be able to see edit the WordPress site.

We’ve replicated those, but also made them optional.

Totally Spin Down a Site: Carbonite

Don’t edit the site very often? You can set it and then forget the WordPress site by putting it on “Carbonite.”

Or Two-Step Verify Access

Edit the site often, but want WordPress secured? Set up two-step verification.

• All of your WordPress editors will need to be logged in our portal before gaining authorized entry

And if they’re not? Hello red screen of death. 

We’ve Been Here. We Will Be Here.

Headless Hostman is built by Top Hat — an award-winning branding, web, and development shop established in 2013.

We built Headless Hostman for ourselves, and our clients to make the WordPress safer and faster.

Ready to Rock?

Switching is easy.

1. We migrate your WordPress site onto our server
2. We get it set up
3. You push the button to go Static
4. Done

Let’s do this.