Originally Posted by wehateporn

There are lots of factors and it depends what you're looking for, but a simple HTML site can run faster than a Wordpress site; Google likes this as will your surfers. If you know SEO then that's another reason not to bother with Wordpress (for a small site).

I do like Wordpress a lot and the majority of my sites run on it, but there are times when an basic HTML site will do the job nicely