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Business Roundup Week Ending June 7
Written By Nathan Ingram
- Core Web Vitals scores show most content management systems performed worse in April 2024 compared to early 2024.
- The data comes from real-world Chrome User Experience Report and HTTP Archive lab testing.
- Duda, a website builder platform, had the highest Core Web Vitals score at 71%.
- Squarespace (58%), Drupal (54%), and Wix (52%) followed, with Joomla (43%) and WordPress (38%) trailing.
- WordPress only dropped 0.71 percentage points, likely due to regular performance improvements in new releases.
- Page weight increases, especially images, may have impacted scores, along with Interaction to Next Paint replacing First Input Delay metric.
- Despite drops, most platforms show steady improvement in Core Web Vitals over time.
- Important to remember that CMS scores are affected by publishers – not just the CMS, itself.
- Read the details on Search Engine Journal.
Global Botnet Behemoth Crumbles in FBI’s ‘Operation Tunnel Rat’
- The FBI has dismantled what is likely the world’s largest botnet – an army of 19 million infected computers leased to hackers for cybercrimes.
- The botnet enabled financial fraud, identity theft, accessing child exploitation materials, bomb threats, and cyberattacks across over 190 countries.
- Over 613,000 infected IP addresses were located in the US, likely causing billions in losses to victims.
- The alleged botnet administrator YunHe Wang, a Chinese citizen, was arrested in Singapore and charged with deploying the malware.
- Wang operated a residential proxy service called “911 S5” offering cybercriminals access to the infected IPs for a fee.
- Authorities seized $4 million in luxury goods, $29 million in cryptocurrency, $30 million in real estate, and 22 domains tied to the botnet.
- The operation, code-named Tunnel Rat, aimed to disrupt the widespread cybercriminal infrastructure facilitated by the massive botnet.
- Read more about the takedown of this unbelievable operation over at Yahoo Finance.
WordPress is Finally Old Enough to Drink – Happy 21st Birthday!
- For some of us, WordPress has been making us want to drink for a while now 🤣.
- Matt Mullenweg reflects on 11 elements that made WordPress successful in its early years and should inform what happens in the future.
- Simple things should be easy and intuitive, and complex things possible.
- Almost every site would be improved by having a great blog.
- Wikis are amazing, and our documentation should be wiki-easy to edit.
- Feedback loops are so important, and should scale with usage and the entire community rather than being reliant on gatekeepers.
- It’s important that we all do support, go to meetups and events, anything we can to stay close to regular end-users of what we make.
- Is it just me or have we moved away from some of these opinions? Maybe we SHOULD get back to the basics.
- See Matt’s reflections on WordPress in his recent blog post.
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